Concerns have come from parents with math backgrounds, including engineering or finance, she said. "Parents can't even help their children right now with some of the things," she said. "We feel very stupid and incapable of assisting."
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Recent revelations of heavily policy-driven or even falsified science have raised concern in the general public, but especially in the scientific community itself. It's not purely a question of political or commercial interference either (as is often claimed when it comes to e.g. climate research) — scientists th...(Read more...)
Here in California, Governor Brown has mandated cutbacks in water usage in response to a three-year drought, while ignoring the far more important causes of the shortage -- cheap, below-market water prices especially for politically favored groups.
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