beddington

Zero tolerance for pseudo-science?

stoat | February 20, 2011

Hat tip to JB, who points me at John Beddington saying: "We are grossly intolerant, and properly so, of racism. We are grossly intolerant, and properly so, of people who [are] anti-homosexuality...We are not--and I genuinely think we should think about how we do this--grossly intolerant of pseudo-science, the building up of what purports to be science by the cherry-picking of the facts and the failure to use scientific evidence and the failure to use scientific method," It gets better: Beddington also had harsh words for journalists who treat the opinions of non-scientist commentators as…