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Should junk science be banned from movies and television?

Essay: February 28, 2010
Most of you reading this will think – yeah, banning junk science that wouldn’t be bad – but you’re probably skeptical. You don’t need to work in the entertainment industry to know that scientific accuracy is almost never a priority. So a ban on bad science? Good luck with that – right? An academic complaint [...]
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Star Trek (2009) Revisited

Review: November 21, 2009
We hear a lot of this these days: “It wasn’t a very good movie, but it was fun.” Most Hollywood-style big budget movies are made that way. On the whole, they always have been made that way. Commercial writers and directors generally don’t give much of a damn whether the movie conveys anything insightful, challenging, [...]
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