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Weblogs ('blogs') about science and society issues, particularly the intersection of science and public policy.

Subcategories

• Skeptical Inquiry

Resources in This Category

• Aetiology

  http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/
  Discussing causes, origins, evolution and implications of disease and other phenomena.

• All-Too-Common Dissent

  http://all-too-common-dissent.blogspot.com/
  Political and scientific commentary on the creation/evolution/intelligent design debate.

• Bad Science

  http://www.badscience.net/
  Ben Goldacre's column from The Guardian in weblog format. Covers media misrepresentations of science, with a particular focus on medicine. Includes a forum.

• Brain Music

  http://brainmusic.wordpress.com/
  The latest news and views about the converging worlds of science, medicine, technology and social media.

• Creating Passionate Users

  http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/
  Weblog focused on user experiences and motivations.

• Dispatches from the Culture Wars

  http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/
  Thoughts from the interface of science, religion, law and culture.

• Down to a Science

  http://www.sciencecafesf.com/
  Ongoing Science Café and blog, a casual forum where leading scientists discuss their research with the public.

• Eccentric Orbit

  http://www.eccentricorbit.blogspot.com/
  A jaundiced, humorous view of new inventions changing our lives.

• Evolution 101

  http://evolution-101.blogspot.com/
  Transcripts of weekly podcasts aiming to promote greater scientific and evolutionary understanding.

• Evolutionblog

  http://evolutionblog.blogspot.com/
  Commentary on developments in the endless dispute between evolution and creationism.

• Framing Science

  http://scienceblogs.com/framing-science/
  Blogging the intersections between science, media and politics.

• Freethought Weekly

  http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/
  Discussions based on a rationalist approach to life.

• Gender and Computing

  http://www.genderandcomputing.no/
  Hilde Corneliussen writes about Gender and Computing, works at University of Bergen.

• Junk Charts

  http://junkcharts.typepad.com/
  Weblog dissecting media use of graphic charts as means of conveying (or obscuring) information.

• Mike the Mad Biologist

  http://www.scienceblogs.com/mikethemadbiologist/
  Mad rantings about politics, evolution and microbiology.

• Pharyngula

  http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/
  Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal.

• Red State Rabble

  http://redstaterabble.blogspot.com/
  A skeptic's dispatches from the flyover zone.

• Respectful Insolence

  http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/
  The ramblings of a surgeon/scientist about medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory (and anything else that interests him).

• Sandwalk

  http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/
  Blog by Larry Moran, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, Canada, subtitled, "Strolling with a skeptical biochemist".

• Sciguy's Interesting Science News

  http://sciguy-science.blogspot.com/
  Blog striving to understand the realities and philosophies of current scientific events.

• Skeptical About Skeptics

  http://www.skepticalaboutskeptics.org/
  Articles and news about those who hold views which are still outside of mainstream science, and their fight against dogmatism. Provides profiles of the opposers, book reviews, articles about dogma and an explanation of terms used. Includes an extra section about harassment by dogmatics at Wikipedia.

• Stars Genes and Quarks

  http://stars-genes-and-quarks.blogspot.com/
  Personal musings on science, scientists and public understanding, this online journal explores themes connecting the past, present and future of science, particularly as viewed by non-scientists.

• The Bioethics Weblog

  http://bioethics.net/blog/
  Commentary on ethics and the biological sciences, written by the editors of the American Journal of Bioethics.

• The Bird's Brain

  http://www.kirstensanford.com/
  Blog by Kirsten Sanford, physiologist and science journalist.

• The Panda's Thumb

  http://www.pandasthumb.org/
  Discussions and critiques of evolutionary theory, science and education.

• The Questionable Authority

  http://scienceblogs.com/authority/
  A little weblog about science, learning and life.

• The Rational Ape

  http://www.rationalape.com/
  A discussion of science, politics, atheism and rationalism in society.

• The Scientific Activist

  http://www.scienceblogs.com/scientificactivist/
  Reporting from the crossroads of science and politics.

• The Sensuous Curmudgeon

  http://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/
  Conserving the enlightenment values of reason, liberty, the scientific method and free enterprise. Emphasis on the evolution-creationism controversy.

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