A trainer of graduate students at a prestigious university wants to put the Ph back in PhD. Can scientists be good at detail work but dumb at logic? Gundula Bosch thinks so. She directs the R3 Graduate Science Initiative at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. In Nature, she says she’s […]
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Secular reporters, for the life of them, can't get their facts right. When it comes to the teaching of evolution, knees jerk, kicking the boilerplate machine into programmed output.
It's still dangerous to challenge Big Science about climate change. In the new political climate, a growing number of voices are willing to take the risk.