by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 2, 2010 | Politics, Reminiscences, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
As science is increasingly politicized in the Delaware senate race, viewers have to wonder – what is a Darwinian skeptic, and is it safe to have one in Congress? Last week, Bill Maher didn’t unearth an archived youthful indiscretion to make Christine O’Donnell the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 21, 2010 | Comedy, World Views
The history of science is one of my primary interests. What constitutes science, how scientific opinion and data has changed or appeared, and what sort of influence the whole field of science has on culture, as well as vice versa. Despite all its glory, science is,...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 16, 2010 | Comedy, Satire, World Views
…Asteroids, asteroids, we all fall down. “Evolution is so ‘out there’ that it’s on its way out,” a friend told me. She had many reasons to conclude that it is irrational of some scientists to proclaim that macroevolution is fact. ...