Misc

NASA's theory of the sun has been repeatedly falsified by observations, but government funded scientists won't abandon the theory as they should.

"However, reputations and salaries are at stake. Also, changing theories is expensive: textbooks would have to be rewritten, curricula changed, computers re-programmed. The incentives are for patching. But that’s expediency, not science. For many decades now, expediency has crowded out science: We live in a dark age of science, a fact obscured by technological feats."

Government research money is always allocated to advance political goals.

Another myth verified as true as divers find Viking sunstone on ship wreck.

"Sunstones were once considered "mystical," since they were said to be able to pinpoint the sun's position even through the clouds, but a 2011 study found the stones were actually real."

More hubris and inaccuracy from scientists.

Yahoo CEO says data showed telecommuting workers were slacking off. I wonder how that's measured. When I work from home, I can work much more quickly because I don't have an office full of people distracting me.

Russian scientists believe they have discovered a new form of bacteria in Lake Vostok.