Scientific literacy – don't be fooled!

Why should we care? Before we could answer the question who to trust when it comes to science and literacy, it is important to account for what, how and who measures it. The majority of…

My list of science wishes for 2017

I'm known to be very bad at fortune-telling, so I'd rather share few things I hope to see happening in 2017. There are plenty of things to dream of for the (hopefully not so far)…

Bloody diets and academic hogwash

Anecdotes are a powerful tool in forming our opinions Science is often enough suffering by public misunderstanding, misconceptions and fear, and even scientists attacking each other. But while this is often uncalled for and predominantly…

Speak up, Nobel (A repost from my LinkedIn)

Mini-interview with Nobel4GMOs mastermind I love this mini-interview, but when I got to read the "I don’t know enough about agri-business to comment on the impact of this deal." I got extremely frustrated! Scientists and…

The onset of reason, part 0.1

Getting the "quacks" in a row! I was wondering if it's worth it for me to jump in the messy fight with quackery and pseudoscience in my pristine-all-sciency blog (pat-pat). Then, I figured - I…