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24 Feb 2009, 11:54 am
JOHN TIERNEY: Pure Politics In The Guise of Science: “Why, since President Obama promised to ‘restore science to its rightful place’ in Washington, do some things feel not quite right? [read post]
24 Feb 2009, 5:28 am
New York Times columnist John Tierney dealt with the intersection of the two in a Monday piece - headlined " [read post]
7 Jan 2009, 5:34 pm
Sometimes this interactive reader model is useful - primarily in material with a close connection to readers' personal lives anyway, such as the personal health sections or John Tierney's consumer-oriented Science Lab.As touching political news stories, however, these interactions do little to increase factual content, and instead promote merely inter-reader emotional solidarity even as they present themselves as the online "debate. [read post]
30 Dec 2008, 11:45 am
JOHN TIERNEY: “If I'm serious about keeping my New Year's resolutions in 2009, should I add another one? [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 10:37 pm
I like John Holdren (although I don’t really know him all that well), and I believe he’ll be a good science advisor, but I think that the issues that Tierney raises in this blog posting (Flawed Science Advice for Obama?) [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 2:58 am
JOHN TIERNEY: Does being spectacularly wrong about a major issue in your field of expertise hurt your chances of becoming the presidential science advisor? [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 1:25 am
JOHN TIERNEY: “If we want our children to be scientifically literate and get good jobs in the future, why are we spending precious hours in school teaching them to be garbage collectors? [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 6:17 pm
In the Monday, November 17, 2008, edition of The New York Times, John Tierney wrote an article titled In Bias Test, Shades of Gray, which dealt with a study that attempted to measure unconscious racial bias among doctors. [read post]
8 Nov 2008, 11:29 pm
JOHN TIERNEY: If, as some social scientists have been telling us, 88 percent of whites have an â € œimplicit biasâ €  [read post]
1 Nov 2008, 1:41 pm
JOHN TIERNEY: â € ˜Misleadingâ € ™ Research From Industry? [read post]
30 Oct 2008, 8:44 am
John Tierney on fractal geometry:It's hard enough to make modern mathematics comprehensible in print, so I'm especially impressed to see anyone try to do it on television. [read post]
29 Oct 2008, 7:01 pm
JOHN TIERNEY: A beautiful math. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 4:18 pm
Megan McArdle points to a John Tierney article about a new medical study about "a new appetite-suppressing drug, tesofensine, [that] was twice as effective as existing drugs in helping people lose weight. [read post]