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Next in my periodic series of book reviews is Alan Alda's newest book on science communicating, If I Understood You, Would I Have This...

One of the more prevalent tactics of climate science deniers is to lie. They do this by cherry-picking, misrepresentation, straw men, and ...

Today's book review is of Dave Levitan's Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterly Mangle Science , publ...

Alda Alda is in the house. He is here to help communicate the science of communicating science. I arrive a full hour before the lecture ...

I'm about halfway through reading a new book by Dave Levitan called Not a Scientist: How Politicians Mistake, Misrepresent, and Utterl...

As expected, Trump proves he is profoundly ignorant and pathologically dishonest. His announcement that he would remove the United States ...

Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA in the current anti-science administration, blatantly lied to Congress about the state of climate scienc...

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...