He has started his own blog, The Joyful Atheist, to further explore questions of religion, reason and science.
No, the reason that science progresses despite confirmation bias is partly that it makes testable predictions, but even more that it prevents monopoly.
The survey was conducted for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK), which describes itself as promoting "scientific education, rationalism and humanism".
Two decades ago, conservatives liked to argue that the ivory tower had put academics out of touch with reality, and that conservatism had reason and science on its side.
The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.
Although the federal government's support for basic research so far shows no sign of waning, academics wonder how durable that commitment will prove now that, post cold war, national security has become less of a reason to invest in science.
They say, oh, the reason I'm studying math and science is there's a practical outcome here.
The discovery that poor behaviour was such a major reason for cancelling lessons has taken the science campaigners by surprise, says SBS spokesman, Peter Cotgreave.
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The report says that on the evidence the MPs saw no reason to think the scientists dishonest or their science besmirched, or to doubt the consensus among climate scientists that humans are warming the world and will warm it further.
"The reason we got it through is we had good science to back it, " Thomas says.
The most obvious reason for the rise of the global university is science's appetite for money and manpower.
Brief science lesson here- pheromones occur naturally within nature and are the reason why we become attracted to someone.
And it is a reason that this Administration has committed to a White House science fair this year, to showcase some of the more creative and sophisticated approaches to problem solving being taken by students across the country.
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The lesson of all this is that there is no reason why countries such as Brazil cannot compete in leading-edge science if they put their minds to it.
Sir Liam said the likely reason more were not being vaccinated was a legacy of the "junk science thrown at MMR" as well as the fact that people do not fear the virus.
The main reason for this work, published in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, is to expand the company's understanding of carbon nanotubes.
For this reason, among others, Jaki says neither the ancient Greeks nor Romans produced modern science, which depends greatly on the idea of progress.
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Daniel Rader of the University of Pennsylvania, one of the world's top experts on the science of cholesterol, says a laser-like focus on LDL-lowering has been one reason deaths from cardiovascular disease are dropping.
"There's no reason for the jargon when you're trying to communicate the essence of the science to the public because you're talking what amounts to gibberish to them, " Alda said in a recent interview with The Associated Press.
The back story to every success story in art, science, business or true love is a long series of rejections, and the single biggest reason why we never live our dreams is the fear of failure which is just another term for fear of rejection.
Part of the reason for this decline in math skills is the stigma associated with excelling in math and science.
The reason is that Dr Wittlinger and his colleagues have, as they report in this week's Science, been chopping the feet off ants.
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