Science is Hard: Realist vs Believer in the comment section here

A skeptic should question, but one doesn’t want to become a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, a crazy anti-vaccine person, or the kind of moron who denies global warming (caution: clicking any of the three previous links could actually cause you to become dumber). So, how does a skeptic learn enough about a scientific issue to figure out whether or not to believe something?

Twitter / Charles Wesley

Phoenix, 46 -- Miami Beach, 51..and Tampa, 40. Evidence of "Globabble" if I ever saw it. Al Gore, you dont know what you're talking about!

Train fares have gone off the rails | Cat Hobbs | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Fares keep rising because the government is cutting its contribution to the railways and making passengers pay more instead. Fares will account for 75% of the cost of running the railways by 2014, up from 50% in 2007.

[Why can't I find the words "climate" or "warming" in this article?]: In the next decade, I hope to become more radical | Costas Douzinas | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The left is the main hope against xenophobic, securitised, apocalyptic barbarism. We should expect radical change