From Philosophy Now, John Greenbank reviews The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry by Rupert Sheldrake; and Vincent di Norcia reviews Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond by Jon Agar. Ira Flatow on truth, deception, and the myth of the one-handed scientist. Science fictions: Is the scientific endeavour always a bold and noble quest for truth? Not when it is writing its own history. Steven Ross Pomeroy on how the key to science (and life) is being wrong. Simon Mitton reviews Ignorance: How it Drives Science by Stuart Firestein. Michael D. Gordin on separating the pseudo from science. Jon Turney reviews The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe by Michael D. Gordin (and more and more). Donald Braid reviews The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science: A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing by Gregory Schrempp. An interview with science broadcaster Alice Roberts on belief, evolution and why she loves bones. Why isn’t science fiction used more often to teach science in schools? For good science journalism, blogs are a better bet than "old media". Here are 5 tips for scientists on how to not write like scientists.
