The war on science

Science under a vortex. Illustration by Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Even if you are not an American researcher, only receive funding if you sign to us that you are not involved in climate or diversity.

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Dismantling the scientific infrastructure. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Why we are not politicians, and why the warning against the actions of the Trump administration is objectively correct

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The Trump administration is leading the destruction of science and how it could return us to the Middle Ages or even the Stone Age. The damage of erasing databases and laying off workers will cause a huge setback in many fields, so the resistance is
Science made America great. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via IDEOGRAM.AI

Scientists are rising up to oppose Trump policies. Today a wave of protests

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March 7 protests across the US and Europe will protest cuts to research, staffing and funding, and push for continued federal focus on diversity, equity and inclusion
US President Donald Trump and his personal advisor on demolitions Elon Musk. Illustration prepared using ideogram.ai

Attack on Science: How the Second Trump Administration Shaped the Fate of Science in the US in 30 Days

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The damage to scientific infrastructure and international collaboration networks—especially in the fields of biomedical and climate research—could be irreversible, and undermine the United States' ability to maintain its position as a global leader in science and innovation in the coming decades.
President Trump is dismantling globalization. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via FLUX

Globalization has flourished twice and collapsed twice. The collapses led to two world wars. Is a third one imminent because of Trump?

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When President Trump, who appears ignorant in every field, including history, announces tariffs even against friendly countries, and tries to take over territories around the world – he is erasing one by one the periods of "deglobalization" that brought
Trump is satisfied with the cancellation of environmental regulation, the climate disaster in the background shows that he is wrong. Illustration by Avi Blizovsky, using artificial intelligence

MIT Business Review: Trump's victory is a tragic loss for progress in tackling the climate crisis

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Former US President Donald Trump in November 2023 during the 2024 election campaign A Hrefhttps Depositphotoscom Illustration Depositphotoscom A

Trump has negatively affected the environment in many ways, and has also affected other populist leaders

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Former President Donald Trump dismantled the pillars of US climate policy when he pulled out of the Paris climate accord and repealed more than 100 regulations protecting air, water, endangered species and human health
Fake news - false news. Image: depositphotos.com

How fake science websites hijack our trust in experts to hinder the fight against the climate crisis

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The deniers of the climate crisis can't get into scientific journals, so they try their luck using websites that pretend to be such journals. A communication researcher explains how to identify such sites
The three monkeys - an illustration of the fooling process. Image: depositphotos.com

Stupidity defeated democracy

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Stupidify Stupidify according to the Oxford dictionary. There are too many people who want the citizens to be stupid. Democracy fell when ancient Rome became an empire, the end is known. You have to do everything to stop
Deep Pike. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Deepfake - and the future of democracy

Deepfaked movies can cause harm to real people who appear in them and even cause wars between countries. No wonder the US and the EU recognized Deep Fake as an immediate threat to democracy
Academy of Sciences president exchange ceremony at the president's house 14.11.21 Photo: Michal Fatal happy_2

"The dichotomy: on the one hand, there is a strengthening of science and appreciation for scientists, but there is also a growing movement of disdain for science"

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The incoming president of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, Prof. David Harel, is trying to dispel this dichotomy. In a conversation with the science website, he explains that, among other things, he intends to reduce the gap between
US President Donald Trump downplays the importance of scientific findings regarding global warming in the event of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement. Screenshot from YOUTUBE

Nature: Some of the damage Trump has done to science is irreversible

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The journal Nature conducted a comprehensive investigation on the damage that Trump has caused to science in the four years of his presidency, and on the eve of the 2020 election
A participant in one of the marches for science, April 2017, explains why it is important to make decisions based on science. Photo: shutterstock

Science under siege: Nature reveals how the Trump administration abused the Environmental Protection Agency

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The Grand Canyon in the service of creation? Source: Claytondodge9, Wikimedia.

The Grand Canyon in the service of creation?

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Different types of turtles. Evolution is the only logical explanation for the variety of life forms on Earth. Source: Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1904) / Wikimedia.

Five things that science knows for sure to be true

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The average global warming of 2012 - 2016. Source: NASA.

Where is science marching - on the occasion of the climate march in Tel Aviv, tomorrow, 28/4

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Scientific literacy does not necessarily mean knowing how heat, pressure and volume are expressed in gas, but rather being aware of the scientific law that determines the relationship between them. FROM PIXABAY.COM

The two questions that assess your scientific literacy

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Medicine shelf in a homeopathic medicine shop in India. Photo: from Wikipedia

Homeopathic medicines and treatments will be required to carry warning labels warning of their ineffectiveness

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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Horizon 2020. From the program website.

Leaving the UK would harm science in the EU and the UK itself

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The image of the CERN dishwasher. Photo credit: Clara Nellis, CERN

Social Media Science: How Does It Work?

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Consent and unanimity

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Charles Darwin statue, UK. Photo: shutterstock

What is the theory of evolution and how did it all begin?

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The Creation of Man - Michelangelo's famous ceiling painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, Rome

The God who created everyone in his own image

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A landscape of olive trees in Italy. Photo: Kite_rin/Shutterstock

The state against science

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On the agenda - why fetuses should not be out of bounds

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Evolution versus creationism. progressed Illustration: shutterstock

What does God do in science classes?

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The Minister of Science, Technology and Space Danny Danon at the ceremony of entering the office, 175/15 from the left - the director general of the office Ido Sharr. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Mr. Minister, I just have a question!

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Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

Survey: 70% support evolution studies - 66% in Jewish schools, 89% in Arab schools

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Credit: Wikipedia, adapted from an illustration by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

Reflections - scientists and research under test / Bracha Reger

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Climate change denial. Illustration: shutterstock

The voice of the skeptic - to forge the doubt / Michael Shermer

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US President Barack Obama, photo from December 2014. Photo: Mykhaylo Palinchak / Shutterstock.com

The voice of the skeptic - a conspiracy for the masses / Michael Shermer

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Mexican "ghost". Halloween costume. Photo: shutterstock

Haunted country MH: The caller who admits that her profession is nothing

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A lesson in modesty. Professor Mario Livio Image courtesy of NASA, ESA, and J. Coyle Jr. (for STScI)

Man as derivative: a scientific conversation with Professor Mario Livio, senior astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute

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Gilad Diamant at the book launch conference "Sharp Thinking - Between Reality and Illusion", Afka College, July 20, 2014. Photo: Gadi Migdal and Boaz Arad

On sharp thinking and the logical fallacies we all fall into

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Charles Darwin on a British banknote with a nominal value of 10 pounds. Photo: shutterstock

The British government decided to ban the study of creationism in schools and academia as a science

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Prayer for the healing of a terminally ill patient. Illustration: shutterstock

About New Age "science".

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Teaching evolution in schools. Illustration: shutterstock

The Ministry of Education is bringing evolution back to schools: "In order for the students to understand the issue of ecology, it is important to understand the scientific basis for the differences between the species and the similarities between some of them: evolution"

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The circled section depicts the part of the universe we should see if it were only 6,500 years old - the distance between the solar system and the Cancer Nebula. Screenshot from the series Cosmos, of the Fox and National Geographic networks

In the fourth episode of Cosmos, Tyson stings the creationists with a caliper

The Cosmic Calendar, a screenshot from the series "Cosmos" presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Photo: FOX and NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Science deniers were angry about the second episode of the Cosmos series which dealt with evolution

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Religions in crisis - not in Israel. Illustration: shutterstock

The voice of the skeptic - is God dying? / Michael Shermer

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Inside the Colosseum in Rome. Photo: Daniel Lohmer / Shutterstock.com

Empires fell because of two reasons: social disparity and overexploitation of natural resources; Modern culture is not immune

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From the promo for the Cosmos series, broadcast on the Fox and National Geographic networks. From YOUTUBE

Neil deGrasse Tyson, presenter of the series Cosmos: "If Sagan were alive, he would be most surprised by the fact that we still have to argue that science is important to society."

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The hand of God creates the universe with the big bang. Illustration: shutterstock

"Scientists should be open to considering incorporating miracles into their theories or explanations."

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Astrology is seen as a science. Illustration: shutterstock

Americans support science, but many of them think astrology is science

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Science journalist Bill Nye, screenshot from the YouTube film of the confrontation between science commentator Bill Nye and Kentucky Creation Museum director Ken Hamm, February 5, 2014.

Opinion/ In the confrontation between the science journalist who explained evolution and creation, scientific education won

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A screenshot from the confrontation movie on YOUTUBE

Assessment: Bill Nye won the public debate against the director of the Creation Museum (video)

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Scientist Bill Nye, in a lecture from 2010. From Wikipedia

Tonight, a controversial confrontation: a science journalist will defend evolution in front of a hostile audience at the Creation Museum in Kentucky

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