Posts Tagged ‘creationism’

We Bend Science to our Beliefs

June 2, 2012 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, geoengineering | 98 comments

My, how times have changed. Thirty years ago, what was the likelihood of Americans electing a black president and accepting gay marriage? We really have progressed, haven’t we? Or maybe not. In 1982 (the year synthetic insulin was created via genetic engineering, by the way), 44% of Americans believed that God created humans in their…Continue Reading…

Confronting Anti-Science Views

September 3, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in creationism, science journalism | No comments

Carl Zimmer calls outs Blogging Heads and, to a lesser extent, The Huffington Post, for trafficking in anti-science “quackery.” Zimmer is arguably the best ambassador for science journalism, and I admire the stand he has taken (in ending his participation in Blogging Heads). But the larger implications of his argument leaves me uneasy. He basically…Continue Reading…