{"id":546635,"date":"2010-04-28T16:39:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=14791"},"modified":"2010-04-28T16:39:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T20:39:29","slug":"defending-science-on-huffpo-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546635","title":{"rendered":"Defending Science on HuffPo | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to write for the Huffington Post, before it became overrun with antiscience alt-med antivax garbage so thick I could smell it through my monitor.<\/p>\n

Case in point would be a somewhat targetless essay by Dr. Larry Dossey<\/a>, who seems to be trying to say that because science is portrayed as an individual effort, but is actually usually a team effort, students get confused and marginalized. Or something. His point is difficult to determine. But in any case, he’s quite wrong; the idea of science being done by groups of people collaboratively is everywhere, from astronomy to zoology.<\/p>\n

I need not go into details, because, happily, Steve Newton from the NCSE has posted a rebuttal on HuffPo<\/a> that tears Dossey to shreds. My favorite part was when Dossey says Nobel Prizes are only given to individuals, and my first thought was “Wow, I wonder if the IPCC<\/a> knows about this?”… in his essay, Newton says almost exactly the same thing. Great minds, yadda yadda.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I suggest you read Dossey’s screed, and then read Newton’s slamdunking of it. It’s a wonderful exercise in muddied and clear thinking, in that order. With people like Newton writing for HuffPo, it makes me feel a bit better that I don’t need to as much.<\/p>\n

Tip o’ the white lab coat Robert Luhn of the NCSE<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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