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Misinformation Regarding Termite Solutions: Biosecurity

For more than a decade, Te­vita Ravavai and his family celebrated Diwali like any other family to symbolise their unity... Biosecurity Authority of Fiji (BAF) has aligned registration of export Biosec... read more

NASA talks global warming

I have a lot of confidence in humans. We’re smart, and even better, we’re clever. There are solutions to global warming, and a lot of them are engineering and technology-driven — I think we can advanc... read more

Respecting parental concerns versus pandering to antivaccine fears

So, sure, there’s an element of not wanting to be told what to do. However, in reality, there’s a huge amount of misinformation about vaccines that is far more readily available than it was in the pas... read more

Beware of Sleeping Giants Rudely Awakened

They also help the government, ensuring that its resources are concentrated on arrests of real criminals - not on ineffective, feel-good solutions advanced by political leaders anxious to reassure a f... read more

Water and waste a key focus at meeting

The committee were asked to allow for an extension on the pest management plan and an extraordinary item regarding waste service delivery ... The plan gives effect to the Biosecurity Act 1993, and it ... read more

Towards a Healthier Debate on Health Reform

“[The town hall meetings are] not creating context in which misinformation on both sides can be corrected, and that’s the problem. We don’t have a deliberative process here taking place in public to i... read more

Response to Climate Depot's Distortions

The fact that you think the solutions to climate change will cost more than letting the climate system run amok, particularly in the developing world, does not stand up to close scrutiny in the academ... read more

Critique: "Of Pandas and People"

I first became aware of the existence of the book "Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological ... And after being fed all this misinformation, the students are asked to form their own op... read more

Update 2: TX-GOV Chris Bell ain't Sexy. Texas, Get over it.

In discussion of any number of subjects, he returns to the phrase ''real solutions and common ground,'' an indication of his style: thoughtful, focused and cognizant of the need for true bipartisan le... read more

The Disneyland measles outbreak continues apace, and a woman refuses quarantine

They are misleading parents and catering to the scientifically-unfounded fears of others. Meanwhile, VaxTruth.org posted a highly misinformation- and fallacy-laden response to the Disneyland measles o... read more

Volume 18 (1998)

NCSE had already produced a flyer summarizing court decisions. The NCSE brochure "Seven Significant Court Decisions Regarding Creation/Evolution Issues" outlines the relevant legal issues. The positio... read more