When Gary Smith arrived at work the morning of April 8th, 1994, he went to check his first assignment of the day. Mr. Smith was set to install a new security system in an upscale home in north Seattle that overlooked Lake Washington. When he arrived at the home and knocked on the front door,…
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Attention, Narcissism, and our Anti-Science Culture
My academic background is in ecology and environmental science, and like all other fields of study, science is not immune to politics; many scientific camps are divided by political interests and personal beliefs. This may be surprising when you consider that a field based on such heavy empiricism such as science can still be subject…
5 Tips to Help You Science Better on the Internet
In 2016, a Ph.D candidate at the University of Wollongong was awarded a doctorate after a successful defense of her dissertation. The candidate’s central thesis was that the Australian Government’s vaccination policy was not based on credible evidence. Instead, the candidate asserted that the policy was the result of a conspiracy between the World Health Organization and…
Knowledge Dilution and the Authority Illusion: Now Anyone can be an Expert
When I was a child, my parents would force me to get outside the house almost every day. I questioned their motives, as messing around on my PlayStation or watching TV seemed like a much better option, but their insistence combined with their authority got me out the door each day. Authority is quite a…
