As politics go, we’re surprised so many readers expect us or any publication to provide “balance,” which reflects a belief in the fallacy that there are two equally valid sides to every story. You see this in the debate over global warming and evolution. Thousands of scientists stand on one side o...

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My recent post about Jim Hansen’s article on climate change in the New York Review of Books was not the piece I set out to write. I had intended to focus on this part of his article:

I used to spread the blame uniformly until, when I was about to appear on public television, the producer inf...

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There's an aspect of Jim Hansen’s piece on global warming in the New York Review of Books that I missed. The intro says:

Jim Hansen is Director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Hi...

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Daniel Mosquin is a working scientist. He maintains a wonderful blog Botany Photo of the Day. The blog contains science. It ranks at 35 on the Technorati scheme that Nature used to puff the top 50 science blogs. But it isn't in that list. I confess. I didn't notice. And Daniel is very magnanimou...

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Book reviews are not always reviews of books. In the big review magazines they are an excuse to sound off. The latest New York Review of Books contains an absolute lulu, a piece that ought to be required reading for sane people everywhere. Alas, it doesn't seem to be getting a whole lot of traction....

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