The Department of Energy’s (DOE) recently announced plan to work with state governments on nuclear research can open the door ...

In 2015, John Bohannon, a science journalist and biologist, felt that reporters were at fault for bad science and the ...

Two things are true at once — First, humans influence the climate system, presenting risks that merit policy attention. Second, climate research, broadly construed, is a deeply politicized endeavor, ...

An authoritative voice with an alarming tone of concern emanates from your television screen, asking, “Did you use (brand name product or drug)?” The ads are inescapable and frequent. With just under ...

A series of revelations emanating from the British territory of Bermuda regarding "bad science" attributed to a woman who runs a DNA evidence consultation company with ties to Pensacola and Santa Rosa ...

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion.

A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...