Tag: Research
Can Science Explain Heaven?
By Lisa Miller March 29, 2010.
Print: Newsweek
Research conducted by Andrew Newberg, University of Pennsylvania, in Near-Death Experiences (NDE), explores why some people have “spiritual, out of body experiences” when having a NDE and why it is not necessarily a glimpse into a transcendent event.
Genetic ‘breakthroughs’ are often nothing of the sort
Marcus Munafò and Jonathan Flint November 8, 2009.
Print: The Guardian
Don’t believe everything you read about genes and disease in prestigious journals like Science and Nature, say Marcus Munafò and Jonathan Flint. A lot of it is simply wrong. The discovery of genes for a certain behaviour, for schizophrenia, for happiness, always get good press coverage, usually based on publication in a respected scientific journal such as Science or Nature. But here’s an odd thing. In the years following media coverage of discoveries of a gene for depression, for intelligence, and so on, journals less prestigious than Science or Nature often publish reports that contradict the original claim, some even saying that the findings are quite compatible with chance.
This government views science simply as a tool for generating profit
Frank Swain June 9, 2009.
Print: guardian.co.uk
It’s difficult to see the assimilation of science into Peter Mandelson’s new Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as anything but bad news.
The reappliance of science
Ian Sample March 9, 2009.
The Guardian
US stem cell researchers will always meet with some disapproval – but at least they now have their president behind them.
