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Polar bear on the ice. Two bears love on drifting ice with snow, white animals in nature habitat, Svalbard, Norway. Animals playing in snow, Arctic wildlife. Funny image in nature.
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Wesley J. Smith
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May 24, 2024
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Nature and Conservation
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Too Many Climate Scientists Confuse ‘Science’ with Activism

Wesley J. Smith
May 24, 2024
Nature and Conservation
Remember when a scientist admitted to removing nuance from a climate-change study because he believed that Nature would not publish it if he did not strictly follow the favored narrative of human-caused climate catastrophe? And now — perhaps in a reaction to that piece — Nature has published a cogent warning that too many scientists in the climate-change sector conflate "climate science" with "climate activism." Read More ›
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Francis Collins at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory
President Joe Biden tours the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health Laboratory Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Maryland. From left, Deputy Director of the NIH NIAAID Vaccine Research Center Dr. Barney Graham, Chief Medical Adviser to the President Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, and Senior Research Fellow and Coronavirus Team Lead at the NIAIC Vaccine Research Center Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett.
United States government work. Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz
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Wesley J. Smith
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February 1, 2022
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COVID-19
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Ideological Scientists Created the Science Credibility Gap

Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2022
COVID-19
We need a scientific community that bridges political divides. But rebuilding that trust infrastructure will require the scientific community to eschew ideology and pursue truth objectively, without regard to favored cultural priorities or desired partisan outcomes. Read More ›
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Handcuffed doctor. Medical crime concept, closeup
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 14, 2020
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Conscience
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Ideology in Science is Destroying Trust

Wesley J. Smith
October 14, 2020
Conscience
Science should never be tainted by ideology. After all, science isn’t supposed to be about political beliefs but is a powerful method for learning about and understanding the physical universe. Read More ›
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Gavel and Stethoscope on Gradated Background
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Wesley J. Smith
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October 6, 2020
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Conscience
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Science Journals Have Become Intensely Political

Wesley J. Smith
October 6, 2020
Conscience

I have related here on several occasions how intensely political supposedly objective science and medical journals have become. The New England Journal of Medicine pushes progressive politics all of the time, as just one example. So does Science, which for example, has endorsed the “nature rights” movement. Nature joined the crowd too in publishing an hysterical jeremiad against President Trump by Jeff Tollefson, its D.C.-based reporter. But if you read the lengthy attack, its most bitter complaints are about intensely believed political and policy differences, not actual examples of Trump being somehow “anti-science.” For example, construes every Trump action on COVID in the most negative light possible. He also attacks Trump’s immigration policy. From, “How Trump Damaged Science–and Why It Could Take Decades to Recover”: Trump has also eroded Read More ›

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Close-up shot of microscope with metal lens at laboratory.
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Wesley J. Smith
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July 13, 2020
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Human Exceptionalism
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The Ideological Corruption of Science

Wesley J. Smith
July 13, 2020
Human Exceptionalism
Why don’t many people “trust the science” anymore? Perhaps because science, as an institution, has fallen prey to the same ideological infection that has invaded and corrupted many other institutions. But it is too rarely discussed, which is why a Sunday Wall Street Journal column by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss is so important. Read More ›
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