science

Deception & Misdirection
The Letter, a COVID-Era Public Health Infamy
During the COVID-19 pandemic, an open letter signed by 1,288 alleged “public health professionals" promoted differential treatment of left-wing BLM protests and right-wing anti-lockdown protests. The defenses of that letter…
by Michael Watson on May 29, 2025

Green Watch
Three Tells of Junk Science
Science is held in extremely high regard in the modern world, but with such great power and credibility also comes the very human temptation to manipulate science to serve less…
by Jon Rodeback on June 26, 2024

Organization Trends
SPLC Plus Teachers Union Ideology Equals More Disparagement
This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the self-appointed watchdog of extremism and “hate groups,” formally designated 12 conservative parents’ advocacy groups as “anti-government extremist groups.” Two of the most…
by Michael Watson on June 8, 2023

Organization Trends
Public-Health Powers Abused Must Be Powers Forfeit
The world is leaving behind the age of lockdowns and mask mandates. Five million swarmed Argentina’s capital to celebrate their World Cup victory, and even New York Mayor Eric Adams…
by Michael Watson on March 9, 2023

Book Profile
The Never-Ending Crises of the West
How to Save the West, the debut book from Claremont Institute editor and podcast host Spencer Klavan, sets itself an impossible task with its title—one its author tacitly admits in…
by Michael Watson on February 22, 2023

Dangerous Documentaries
Architects of Woke: Michel Foucault and Science as “Oppression”
The Architects of Woke series takes aim at far-left post-modernist and Marxist thinkers and activists responsible for the spread of identity politics from college campuses to society at large. The…
by CRC Staff on February 10, 2021

Green Watch
Bee-mageddon, Magic Chocolate, and Bad Reporting on Science
[PDF here] Bad scientists and bad journalists team up to use junk science—scientific claims that are unsupported by the facts—to mislead the public and exploit people’s…
by T. Becket Adams on September 22, 2015

Green Watch
Fear Itself
[PDF here] U.S. government policy on radiation exposure is based on irrational fear and on discredited science called “LNT.” The policy doesn’t just deny…
by Jon Basil Utley, Dr. Steven J. Allen on June 2, 2015

Green Watch
Witch-Hunt 2015
[PDF here] If you thought science involves scientists challenging each other’s ideas and struggling to see who can best explain…
on April 1, 2015