Prompted by the Wisconsin Lutheran story, PTJ at The Duck of Minerva objects to the current state of scholarship in political science: Once people are hired, they also have to figure out what to assign to their students; for that purpose, they need books and articles. Naturally, people want to assig...

Of Obama's decision to reverse Bush's ban on federal funding for stem cell research, Yuval Levin has this to say: ...legitimate dispute underlies the stem cell debate. But that is not the ground on which the president made his case yesterday. He argued that to deny free rein to stem cell science is ...

Yuval Levin was a staff manager of the Bush-era “President’s Council on Bioethics”, a body widely derided for its almost comically right-wing leanings and gross intellectual malfeasance. Today he steps in it trying to say something all clever and sophisticated about the new authori...

I'm not entirely sure what the point of this article is: President Obama’s directive on Monday to “guarantee scientific integrity� in federal policy making could have a far-reaching impact, affecting issues as varied as climate change, national security, protection of endangered species and ch...

In a search for "non-compromised" candidates, Matt writes: And yet, look, we’re only looking to fill a relatively small number of positions. Timothy Geithner needs a Deputy Secretary. And then there’s a need for an Under Secretary of the Treasury for Domestic Finance, an Assistant Secr...

More science and politics news, and this time it’s heartening: as promised last week, Obama has signed an Executive Order today reversing the ban on federal funding of stem cells. You may recall he promised to do this during his campaign, and made a point of it in his answers for Science Debat...

Hurray!!!! I was excited this morning to hear that Obama was lifting the stupid ignorant asshole-ish ban on stem cell research perpetrated by George W. Bush. As President Obama reversed the Bush administration’s limits on embryonic stem-cell research, he said scientific decisions must be ̶...

The post I made last week about McCain being antiscience has made quite a splash, more than I expected (and I expected quite a bit). As usual when I post on politics I have been lauded as a voice of reason, told I am a political moron, had my arguments backed up by others with evidence, and attacked...

Obama is set to revoke the federal ban on funding embryonic stem cell research today. This is hardly news for anyone paying attention to Obama’s agenda but there are a few related items that would certainly be news for anyone getting their information about this matter via the MSM. I’ve ...

GoogleMap image uploaded with plasq's Skitch! We have a fairly serious transparency problem here in Franklin. The city website is fairly incomprehensible, and staffing shortages mean that it'll be a long time before resources can be devoted to making it easier for people to know what meeting...