A commenter made some interesting comments on a previous post, which I have moved up to the main part of the blog, so that I can answer them here.

A bevy of Nobel prize winners has sent a letter to the Kansas State Board of Education, to plead the case for not teaching Intelligent Design (ID) in schools. Now I think that the claims of ID proponents can be usefully defeated on the field of science, to the benefit (at least) of science. But [...]

A pair of interesting posts (pointed out by Not Even Wrong) in Luboš Motl's Reference Frame, a fascinating blog mostly on issues around theoretical physics. He provides a rough estimate of how much bias can affect the findings of those scientific issues which are particularly controversial. It's applied to global warming (on which I take [...]