From Cato Unbound, Terence Kealey on the case against public science. Erin Biba on why the government should fund unpopular science — it's a no-brainer. The STEM crisis is a myth: Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians. Why are there still so few women in science? The answer has more to do with “The Big Bang Theory” than with longstanding theories about men’s so-called natural aptitude. Lauren Rankin on when a black female scientist gets called an “urban whore”. From Citizen Science Quarterly, spare a thought for the scientist. Erin Biba on how the way the U.S. teaches science doesn’t work. How well do mature and emerging nations capitalize on science? Hundreds of open access journals, including those published by industry giants Sage, Elsevier and Wolters Kluwer, have accepted a fake scientific paper in a sting operation that reveals the “contours of an emerging wild west in academic publishing” (and more). From The Economist, trouble at the lab: Scientists like to think of science as self-correcting — to an alarming degree, it is not; and how science goes wrong: Scientific research has changed the world — now it needs to change itself. Kevin Hartnett on defining the difference between real science and pseudoscience. From The New Atlantis, a symposium on science, technology, and religion; science and non-science in liberal education: Harvey C. Mansfield on the confidence of scientists and the need for philosophy; and Raymond Tallis on Thomas Nagel’s defiance of the materialist mainstream.
