Burton himself was the worst offender, offering anecdotes and bad science with an air of authority.
But now to the real crux of the matter- whether creationism is bad science and bad theology.
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Committee members lectured the scientists, throwing out bad science claims, often disguised as questions, thick and fast.
Ben Goldacre, doctor and Bad Science columnist in the Guardian been a driving force behind this issue.
But Monsanto says claims its products were dangerous amounted to "bad science fiction with no support on the record".
It's a dramatic, entertaining tale, with a clear lesson: Corporations, universities and governments never tire of throwing good money at bad science.
Such awards are usually reduced on appeal, but the industry's chief complaint is that juries are unable to distinguish between good and bad science.
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He consistently rejected the conventional wisdom that the race was tied, and for that, he was cast as a left-wing nut peddling bad science.
This amusing take-down of bad science reporting, published in Science.
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Following a deluge of letters, emails and telephone calls accusing Mann of bad science practices, Penn State found it prudent to conduct an internal investigation.
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Others argue that the tear gas, at the very least, set the stage for an inadvertent inferno--a claim long since dismissed as bad science by an independent investigation.
But who has time to read all this bad science?
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"It was like a bad science-fair project, " she says.
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Okay, so that sounds like the start to a bad science fiction movie, but it could pave the way to understanding schizophrenia better and, by extension, lead for better treatments to schizophrenics.
The object lesson worth drawing from this story is that just one instance of bad science given the blessing of recognized experts can lead to years of damaging lies that snowball out of control.
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According to Norah Rudin, a forensic-DNA consultant in Mountain View, California, forensic scientists are beginning to accept that cognitive bias exists, but there is still a lot of resistance to the idea, because examiners take the criticism personally and feel they are being accused of doing bad science.
But most sadly of all, this is bad news for science and science journalism.
In what is always a bad sign for solid science, they found that any connections between blocking frequency and global warming are highly dependent upon the methodology they used.
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But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science.
Spending a quarter of a century building something and then scuttling it looks bad, even if the useful science that has been done on board could be written up on the back of a postage stamp.
But the story is a little more complicated than I've made it, because science has shown us that bad environments can affect a person so strongly that it changes the personal makeup in ways that will make the person more vulnerable to depression in the future.
However, what we have to understand is that science and technology itself is neither good nor bad.
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More to the point, if science fiction is any guide, building underground cities is usually a bad idea.
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Speaking before a 2007 U.S. Joint House Energy and Science Committee, he enthused that just a little legislative magic could convert bad carbon into an enormously profitable commodity.
The term science-help is also not a line in the sand between good and bad books.
Well, Goldman, who never met a regulation she didn't like, is back in government, this time as a senior science advisor at the FDA. Yet another example of the Washington tradition that no bad deed goes unrewarded.
So there are no exact answers, just some important strands in the science and a lot more research still needed to understand exactly why our weather is so bad.
Because it's a human invention, science - just like religion - will always be used for all kinds of purposes, good and bad.
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So, it's bad timing that today's students are not demonstrating the necessary levels of interest or proficiency in math and science to fill these technological jobs.
The bad news: just as much of the world is starting to get excited about the prospects of 3D printing, science is moving on to the world of 4D.
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