Unless you’ve been living under a rock, the United States of America is host to the most controversial President since Andrew Jackson. One of his objectives has been to diminish the government’s involvement when it comes to environmental issues, and the New York Times‘s Brad Plumer and Coral Davenport illustrate this chilling effect upon science in the name of promoting capitalism and industry. On the other hand, Trump Might Help Free Science That’s Locked Behind Paywalls. Wait, what? If he’s pro-business, why make life difficult for Elsevier who nets more than a half billion dollars a year? It comes down to one simple truth, the public paid for that science but private companies believe they’re entitled to hold it hostage for a minimum of $30 a pop for a PDF? Which is why we encourage skeptics and anomalists to visit Sci-Hub. Keeping with the theme of science, the site Skeptopathy argues Journalists Must Also Cover The Mistakes Of Science along with their successes. Just hop onto any trending positivist / science-y social media thread and one can smell the dogma of science’s infallability. Why? Because science is only portrayed as an objective success, than a series of well-meaning and educated bumblings ’til someone’s theory stands up to falsification. Read up on science’s boners, and how we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. (CS)

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