Science news articles about 'orthodoxy'

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- John McCain broke with the Bush administration and Republican Party orthodoxy Monday as he not only declared global warming real, but reached out to Democrats and independents ...

For decades, microbiologists assumed that macrophages, immune cells that can engulf and poison bacteria and other pathogens, killed microbes by damaging their DNA. A new study from the University of ...

Earth system science is shorthand for the recognition that El Niño, climate change and the calamitous 2004 tsunami are all very complex events. El Niño is a natural cyclic blister of hot water in the ...

... of scientists and educators who are pursuing legitimate, opposing scientific views to the reigning orthodoxy [of evolution]", and House of Numbers, which questions the link between HIV and Aids. The ...