Beware scientific summaries and abstracts in controversial issues!
It is currently uncertain how much Plan B — the “morning-after” pill, which is a type of emergency contraception — works because of effects that take place after fertilization (i.e. a method ethically completely unacceptable to many, since it would be viewed as destroying a human), rather than [...]

In the process of examining what then-Cardinal Ratzinger (now the Pope) might think about evolution, John Allen provides the following quote from Ratzinger, which can be found included in Ratzinger's book Truth and Tolerance:
No one will be able to cast serious doubt upon the scientific evidence for micro-evolutionary processes. R. Junker and S. Scherer, in [...]

The controversy over the recent approval by the FDA of Plan B, an "emergency contraceptive", has taken an interesting twist. An otherwise strongly pro-life Catholic blog, Ales Rarus, has protested that Plan B is emphatically not an abortifacient (and thus not morally objectionable on that ground), despite that being exactly what the controversy is all [...]

Some of the better science blogs are now congregating together at ScienceBlogs, which will make it easier to find good quality science postings. I have some minor niggles on the layout design: it's a fairly bland layout (and they all have much the same layout, so some individuality has definitely been lost), and the text [...]

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 [...]