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Facts don't matter. Of course, facts do matter, but not as much as you might think. This is especially true in communicating science...

I march for science because science is critical to our daily lives. I march because I've been a scientist all my life. I march because...

The new administration has made no secret it denies science and is set on destroying human health and environmental protections . The EPA...

The infamous tobacco and fossil fuel lobbying firm, Heartland Institute, is again intentionally disinforming the public. This past week th...

Republicans are dishonestly anti-science. This is not a partisan opinion; the empirical evidence of this is overwhelming. This week saw ...

The Dake Page has published a series of posts over the years exposing climate denialism. This post brings many of those posts together for...

Part memoir, part mentoring, and part history of science, ecological icon E.O. Wilson offers up this series of 20 letters of advice to t...

One of the questions dogging scientists is whether they should speak out about science issues to the public. In the past we've largely...

Last week this page looked at how the new administration - both the White House and Congress - was attacking human health and environmenta...

As should come as no surprise to anyone who has been paying attention for the last decade or two, the Republican Party and Republican Hous...

Last week this page talked about how climate denier lobbyists control the message and manipulate public opinion . One of the ways was to t...

In lobbying, the goal is always to control the message and manipulate public opinion. Climate deniers work hard to control the anti-scienc...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) woke up this week to a barrage of restrictions that a former Administrator under George H.W. ...

NASA and NOAA issued a joint press release on January 18, 2017 confirming what climate watchers had expected - 2016 was the warmest year o...