by Chris Mooney, in a DeSmogBlog cross-post Over the last year here at DeSmogBlog, my writings have converged around a set of common themes. On the one hand, I’ve shown just how factually incorrect today’s political conservatives are, documenting the disproportionate amount of misinformation believed by Fox News watchers and the disproportionate wrongness of the right when it comes to science. At the same time, I’ve advanced a variety of psychological explanations for why we might be seeing so much political and scientific misinformation today on the right wing. For instance, I’ve >>>

C.R. writes: Over the past several years I’ve been hired to doctor, edit and even downright ghostwrite a few books about money or business matters. Because business, investment and finance are not my strong points, I generally turn to (brick and mortar or virtual) bookstore bookshelves for advice. Just the other day I came across a guide to beginner’s investing written by Walter F. Wild, former president of the Hawaii Psychological Association. Dr. Wild’s a psychologist who is also an MBA. Although my personal investment life is pretty much non-existent and I’m not currently working >>>

DUBAI // Dubai Police's team of behavioural scientists has helped detectives to investigate more than a dozen crimes, including rape and murder, since it was set up last year. Like the FBI behavioural analysis unit in Quantico, Virginia - made famous by the movie The Silence of the Lambs - the team investigates crimes and profiles criminals in violent cases. "The unit was introduced one year ago under the training section of the forensic and criminal science department but has now been set up as a specialised unit on its own," said Capt Mohammed Al Hammadi, the unit's chief. Its job is >>>