IT IS not so easy to be gemütlich when the dismal science rules your land.
Even falsifiability, the benchmark for positivist science, rules out many of the legitimate theoretical claims of cutting-edge physics, and rules in many wacky claims, like astrology — if the proponents are clever about which observations corroborate their predictions.
Now science rules, it's a new world order Thanks to Specter, Harkin, Obey, and Porter.
Is education, rationality, analysis, objectivity and good faith, and a culture that attacks fake wherever it's found and where science rules, the preferred outcome?
"We are almost on Pluto's doorstep!" Science rules!
Science rules even when it smells bad! Follow me @DeborahNetburn and "like" Los Angeles Times Science & Health on Facebook.
Because, as Bill Nye the Science Guy says, "Science rules!" So... why didn't this exist when we were teens?
After all, he and I both agree that Coyne and the New Atheists go too far when they insist that science rules out religion.
Yea, science rules!" Kids' parlance -- but that's the kind of down-to-earth message that needs to get out to more young students as they look for careers that make a real impact.
From a purely logical point of view, Mohler could view me as "a welcome but theologically confused ally in the war on scientism". After all, he and I both agree that Coyne and the New Atheists go too far when they insist that science rules out religion.
