1. An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research.
2. An Annotated Bibliography of Nonsense
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1998
   Academic critics today not only question the impact of science upon society, but they also question the very idea of scientific rationality.
3. “Information Loss - From Tornadoes to Black Holes” at Perimeter Institute’s Public Lecture on Wednesday, April 1
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   If information is “lost” in a black hole, is the information gone forever? There is a good chance that not only does it come back, it comes back in the blink of an eye.
4. The Canadian Space Agency
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
5. Christian Science Committees on Publication in Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. The Earth Science Book
   Activities for Kids
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1993
   Activities that explain basic Earth science facts and important environmental issues. Using simple materials found around the house or in the neighbourhood, these activities are designed to teach children about the planet Earth, its composition and atmosphere, life on Earth, and much more.
   
7. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   The authors criticize postmodernism in academia for its misuses of scientific and mathematical concepts in postmodern writing. Fashionable Nonsense examines two related topics: (1) The incompetent and pretentious usage of scientific concepts by a small group of influential philosophers and intellectuals; (2) the problems of cognitive relativism, the idea that "modern science is nothing more than a 'myth', a 'narration' or a 'social construction' among many others". The stated goal of the book is not to attack "philosophy, the humanities or the social sciences in general...[but] to warn those who work in them (especially students) against some manifest cases of charlatanism," and in particular to "deconstruct" the notion that some books and writers are difficult because they deal with profound and difficult ideas. "If the texts seem incomprehensible, it is for the excellent reason that they mean precisely nothing." The book includes long extracts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, Paul Virilio, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Luce Irigaray, Bruno Latour, and Jean Baudrillard who are considered by some to be leading academics of Continental philosophy, critical theory, psychoanalysis or social sciences. Sokal and Bricmont set out to show how those intellectuals have used concepts from the physical sciences and mathematics incorrectly. The extracts are intentionally rather long to avoid accusations of taking sentences out of context.
   Published in French as Impostures Intellectuelles and in the United Kingdom as Intellectual Impostures.
8. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1997
   Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
9. Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Man, Beast and Zombie
    What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Human Nature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Drawing upon the ideas of evolutionary biology, cognitive science and artificial intelligence, Malik questions many of our assumptions about human nature.
11. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
12. New Canadian Festival in Waterloo, and Made Viewable Online to the World
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute, and John Matlock, Director of External Relations and Outreach, will announce details on June 12th, 2009, of an innovative, public science festival coming in October, 2009.
13. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
14. Postmodern Disrobed
    Review of Intellectual Impostures
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1998
    An admirable job of exposing the daffy absurdity of postmodernism intellectuals.
15. Rationality/Science
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1995
    Chomsky writes: "It strikes me as remarkable that the left today should seek to deprive oppressed people not only of the joys of understanding and insight, but also of tools of emancipation, informing us that the "project of the Enlightenment" is dead, that we must abandon the "illusions" of science and rationality--a message that will gladden the hearts of the powerful, delighted to monopolize these instruments for their own use."
16. Science & Technology Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to science and technology in the Sources directory for the media.
17. The Social Misconstruction of Reality
    Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Analyzes erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absense of evidentiary support, and examines why this happened.
18. Sources welcomes Science for Peace
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Sources welcomes a new member: Science for Peace. Science for Peace is a Canadian organization which brings together those interested in the natural and social sciences in order to address the global crises facing humankind.
19. State-of-the-Art Science & Environment College Takes Root
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    The University of Winnipeg's new state-of-the-art college for the environment and science will bring together researchers, faculty and students to work towards effective global stewardship. Construction is underway.
20. Transforming Ourselves Transforming the World
    An Open Conspiracy for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Addresses society's pessimism about social change and provides a theoretical means and practice to overcome this fatalism.
21. Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1996
    Alan Sokal submitted this parody of postmodernism, poststructuralist theory, deconstruction, and political moralism to the journal Social Text. The editors failed to spot the hoax and published it as a serious article. The hoax caused a fierce debate between the postmodernists and those who consider postmodernism reactionary nonsense.
22. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)
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    Resource Type: Organization
    
23. Who owns knowledge?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2007
    The resurgence of a Romantic view of culture poses a real menace to the free flow of knowledge and threatens to corral it into intellectual Bantustans. The ideas of free speech and open debate become meaningless if we fail to defend a universalist concept of knowledge or if we accept the notion of science as but a local view whose factual claims must defer to cultural and political needs. If scientific debate is constrained to express only sentiments with which people feel comfortable, culturally and politically, then science dies as the line between knowledge and myth becomes eroded.
    

Experts on Science in the Sources Directory

1. American Museum of Natural History
2. Christian Science Committees on Publication in Canada
3. Economic Cooperation Organization
4. ibiblio.org
5. Improbable Research
6. Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies
7. Museum of the History of Science
8. National Museum of American History
9. Natural History Museum
10. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
11. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
12. Organization of the Islamic Conference
13. Shanghai Cooperation Organization
14. Southern African Development Community
15. UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
16. University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT)