DC's Improbable Science

Jump to follow-up Being interested in science communication, I was pleased when the BMJ asked me to review Unscientific America , by Chris Monney and Sheril Kirshenbaum. The BMJ provides a link that allows you access to the whole review. They have made very few changes from the submitted version, which is reproduced below (with [...]

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Jump to follow-up Latest: Michael Reiss resigns 16 September 2008: see below There has been something of a rumpus in the media today when the education secretary of the Royal Society, Michael Reiss, appeared to endorse the teaching of creationism in science classes,  The BBC’s report was only too typical. “Call for creationism in science” [...]

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This has been reposted from my old religion and education blog. Derek Gillard’s excellent "Education in England" site had this beautiful piece. With his permission, I reproduce it here, because it has now vanished from his site. However you can still read also Gillard’s excellent essay “Creationism: bad science, bad religion, bad education” Marcus Atkins, [...]

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This item appeared originally on my old Religion and Education page. It has been moved here because of the discussion that followed a review in the BMJ of Unscientific America and the discussion that followed, on this blog and on P.Z. Myers Pharyngula blog.   Until recently, the idea that the earth was created 6000 [...]

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This item appeared originally on my old Religion and Education page. It has been moved here because of the discussion that followed a review in the BMJ of Unscientific America and the discussion that followed, on this blog and on P.Z. Myers Pharyngula blog. Evan Harris MP and I were up against the head of [...]

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