Science

In the words of Education Secretary Br. Armin Luistro, they decided to jettison science in order to “decongest the Basic Education Curriculum (BEC) and to make learning more enjoyable to young learners.” In other words, they believe that in postponing the teaching of science, they are doing the students an act of kindness.

Can Everyone Be A Texan? Many opponents of the RH Bill and of population management in general deny that the world is...

If you're angry after reading about the capitulation of the DOH to the Catholic bishops who could really care less about the health of the Filipino people, do something with your rage. Call the DOH, email them. Let them know that they serve the Filipino people. Remind them about their mission. Tell them to work for our health, not the conception of holiness held by the CBCP.

The DepEd decided to remove Science subjects in Grades 1 and 2. This was reported in the January 24, 2012 Manila...

New curriculum or not, as long as science is treated by our society as a body of knowledge to memorize and a set of equations that barf out dissertations, and not as a way of going about the world, it wouldn’t matter if we started teaching science at kindergarten.

The finding, as the article later explains, is that there are two new modifications discovered of the canonical nucleotide cytosine and not that there are somehow new forms of genes that code for alien proteins.

Such beauty compels some people to conclude that there must be an Intelligent Designer, a Loving Creator who creates and sustains life. However, naturalists argue that it is the sun which is the ultimate sustainer of all life on earth.

I present to you ten commonly used fallacies and what to do when they are used against you in logical debate.

That the Philippine public is scientifically illiterate is one disheartening thing. That some of our reputable newspapers publish articles that peddle pseudoscience and baloney is another. However, the fact that our government does not make decisions based on scientifically sound judgment is the most tragic of all.