Junk Science Likely to Decrease Lawnmower Safety

I then found this posting over at TownHall. So as both the air and lawn mowers becomes continually cleaner, the EPA employs “junk science” to make lawn mowers potentially more hazardous and more expensive.

Science Ethics and Truth

The truth about the technical challenges and scientific hurdles for embryonic stem-cell (ESC) therapies is finally getting out. The truth, of course, is that there are no human embryonic stem-cell therapies even in clinical trial, let alone ready for therapy, and there have been no major treatment models in animals, either. Adult stem cells, however, have already been successful in treating more than seventy different diseases in actual human beings.

Readers of First Things are well aware that the main objection to current methods of embryonic stem-cell research is that they involve the destruction of living human embryos, that is, human beings at the embryonic stage in their lives. This is a principled objection to the direct and intentional killing of human beings.

There is no principled objection to stem-cell research, not even to embryonic stem-cell research, provided that methods that do not destroy embryos are pursued… . .

Big note Meanwhile, adult stem-cell therapies are healing patients now—despite the fact that they receive only a fraction of the funding.

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Meditation topics on Science Topics, Science, Morals, Ethics, and Religion

I ask all to consider a mediation on the following questions.

Is global warming open for discussion? Or are conflicting observations to be dismissed?

Is evolution open for discussion? Do not limit your thinking to evolution versus intelligent design.

Is religion as it has been called in comments at sefora.org willful ignorance?

Is there a right for scientific research? If so, is there a right to tax people to provide for such research?

Are research practices subject to moral and ethical constraints. If so what is the source of those moral and ethics.

Can science really be separate from religion, morals, or ethics? I ask this question both of those who think they should be intermixed and of those who do not.

One More Look at Scientists and Engineers for America

I have written about Scientists and Engineers for Change America because at first they looked like something that I could consider for support. I found this not to be so, and I have written herein and in comments to their website the reasons this is so. This morning, I spent sometime re-looking at their website and the internet overall concerning this group. My conclusion is that they are secular humanists, with a political agenda which support the Democratic party.

We Cannot Scientifically Show Science

I have pondered the thought but I see no way the scientific method is subject to itself. This is in part true because the scientific method is not empirical knowledge. In other words, we cannot scientifically show science.

It can honestly be said that science is really a philosophy. It is a philosophy in that it is a set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity. Science has only it practical application to warrant it as in any as a superior form of knowledge. That is if science is a superior form of knowledge.

Bill of Rights for Scientists and Engineers

There is a new website which I found via titusonenine . It is called SEA Scientism and Engineers for America. It is subtitled Smart Leadership for a Change. On that site they have a Bill of Rights for Scientists and Engineers.

This is my take on the Bill of Rights for Scientists and Engineers. Warning there is more a bit of hyperbole here both from them and me. At least I hope it is hyperbole to some degree on their part.