Well, I came back to delete this post 19 hours after writing it, realizing I had fallen into exactly the sort of oppositional mire between Creation and evolution that I think should not exist (see Day 5). Thanks for stopping by, though. I hope you check out some of the other science posts while you’re [...]
Β The comment arrived on Day 2 of my 100-day effort, and I now regret getting so angry that I deleted it. My friend, posing as an anonymous reader,Β quoted my own line: “The scientific process is robust; its only weakness is human error,” and wrote: “Yikes, what if we humans erred right at the beginning, [...]
Welcome to the Behind the Science blog, which is meant to peer behind the scenes of some of the science stories I write for various media outlets, most often National Geographic News. Let there be no implication that these media outlets have endorsed the content of these entries; in most cases, they haven’t. The point [...]