March/April 2024

Stories That Should Be Handled with Care

Volume 48, No. 2

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From the Lab to the Layperson: A Pioneering Initiative to Improve the Translation of Science
March 27, 2024
Nick Tiller

“If you don’t tell your own story, someone else will tell it for you, and you probably won’t like how they do it.” —Shirley Malcolm, American Association for the Advancement of Science. We know that complex life likely evolved from single-celled organisms. As soon as microbes emerged...

 

UFO Conspiracy on Wikipedia Claims:A Conversation with GSoW’s Susan Gerbic
March 27, 2024
Rob Palmer, Susan Gerbic

Few things get my blood boiling like reading or hearing truth claims being made with confidence about something that I absolutely KNOW is false. One example is a conversation I overheard just this week where a man was claiming that no one has ever seen a satellite, and people only believe such...

 
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Here Come the Creationists…Again | Eugenie Scott
March 27, 2024
Eugenie Scott

https://youtu.be/UCKNUgPNBQ4 In June 2022, the Supreme Court decided in Kennedy v. Bremerton that a high school football coach was permitted to pray on the fifty-yard line and overruled an earlier Supreme Court case, Lemon v. Kurtzman. This completely changed how the government approached...

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