Yet another sign that doing research may be of use in writing final papers.

I’m marking another stack of papers (because it’s May, and the sun is shining, and apparently I was a real bastard in some previous life). In these papers, the students were supposed to examine an instance where the interests of scientists and the interests of non-scientists (perhaps various subgroups of non-scientists) might be at odds. […]

Defining terms (or, I got that ID survey, too)

Being identified as “pro-science” is pretty cool, given that some people get the idea (from my kvetching about ethics) that I’m against science. (I’m against sloppy or dishonest methodology masquerading as science, but that doesn’t make me an enemy of science.) But that was about the only part of the widely distributed ID survey that […]