President Richard Nixon’s advisor Daniel Patrick Moynihan once termed “benign neglect.” As it happened, however, during the 1980s and 1990s, the United States planted seeds in Central America that ...

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University (THE CONVERSATION) Scientists are trained to be ...

Scientists are trained to be professional skeptics: to always judge the validity of a claim or finding on the basis of objective, empirical evidence. They are not cynics; they just ask themselves and ...