United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
A Paris-based, specialized U.N. organization that was designed by Sir Julian Huxley, who also was its first director general. In his founding 1946 document, Huxley …
Science / Pseudoscience
Asch Conformity Study
During the 1950s Solomon Asch conducted and published a series of experiments that demonstrated the degree to which an individual’s own opinions are influenced by …
Moon Landings
The findings of the AULUS study regarding the discovery of anomalies and inconsistencies in the Apollo record strongly indicate that the manner in which the …
Scopes Monkey Trial
This trial was an important educational milestone regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. Scopes, who was conned into being the accused teacher (claims he …
Climategate
The scandal erupted on Nov. 19, 2009, when a collection of email messages, data files and data processing programs were leaked from the Univ. of …
Peak Oil
A research geologist for Shell Oil Company and later the US Geological Service, King Hubbert, is credited with developing a quantitative technique (Logistic Growth Curve) …
Abiotic Oil Theory
oil that is not (a-) made from decaying biological organisms (-biotic), but from rhythmic cycles in the mantle of Earth. This theory (debunking the evolutionary …
SynBio
An emerging, unregulated science now being used to create food and fiber, that was originally used to produce medicines, biofuels, and super bacteria designed to …
Young Earth Theory
A form of creationism which holds that the earth and the universe are approximately 6,000 years old. Young earth creationists hold that both creation and …
Fibonacci Number
a sequence of numbers that can be found in many organisms, such as the spiral patterns in the heads of sunflowers and offer power evidence of …