science

These are worrying developments for the future of science education in our schools, and therefore for the future of science in this country. Politics and religious beliefs are being used to control education. Parents and politicians don't like what the facts say, and so they don't want their children exposed to the scientific basis for these findings.

A flawed study linking autism and vaccines has finally be retracted, although not before it was used by the anti-vaccine lobby to justify endangering millions of children by frightening their parents into opting out the vaccine. Predictably, autism rates did not decline but cases of preventable childhood diseases increased...