LukeScientiae
@LukeScientiae
My aim is to promote awareness and understanding of science and skeptical thinking. It's important for two reasons:
1. As a form of intellectual self-defence in a society riddled with attempts to exploit people's poor science literacy. We are far too vulnerable to quacks, deniers, cranks and pseudoscientists of all sorts telling us utterly improbable nonsense in the hope we'll buy into it. I am particularly troubled by deniers of climate change, deniers of evolution and the deniers of the efficacy of vaccines.
2. Democracy is enhanced by the spread of accurate knowledge. But who in a democratic society will make good decisions about science if no one is well informed about it?
1. As a form of intellectual self-defence in a society riddled with attempts to exploit people's poor science literacy. We are far too vulnerable to quacks, deniers, cranks and pseudoscientists of all sorts telling us utterly improbable nonsense in the hope we'll buy into it. I am particularly troubled by deniers of climate change, deniers of evolution and the deniers of the efficacy of vaccines.
2. Democracy is enhanced by the spread of accurate knowledge. But who in a democratic society will make good decisions about science if no one is well informed about it?
TEDxPSU - Michael Mann - A Look Into Our Climate Past To Present To Future
12 years ago
Steven Weinberg - Science _ Religion Conflict
12 years ago
Doubt: Climate, Tobacco and the Anti-Science Movement
12 years ago
Why Christianity is Impossible to Believe (Christopher Hitchens)
12 years ago
CERN's Antonio Ereditato BBC Inteview (110924)
12 years ago
CERN Study Authors on Neutrinos Faster Than Light Result
12 years ago
How good are climate models? (BBC, 2011)
12 years ago
BBC's Richard Black On Climate Denialism & News Reporting
12 years ago
Climate change denier James Delingpole doesn't read or understand the evidence
12 years ago
Carl Sagan on the importance of science literacy
12 years ago
Feynman lecture on how science works
12 years ago