Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

Morgridge Institute for Research CEO, Brad Schwartz, hosted two University of Wisconsin professors for the MIR’s Fearless Science Speaker Series Oct. 21, 2024. Professor of Law and Bioethics, Pilar ...

Peter Thiel during an interview with Bari Weiss last week spoke about how modern science is failing to balance skepticism and dogmatism. Today’s science has become more dogmatic “than the Catholic ...

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1. The norms of science, and its structure -- 2. Popper and Kuhn, and their conceptions of what science is -- 3. Laboratory life: Bruno Latour and rhetoricin science -- 4. Is the scientific paper a ...

Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public distrust of ...

World-recognized theoretical physicist Sylvester Gates, better known as Jim Gates, started at Brown this year as the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics. Gates, who served on President Obama’s ...

One of the nation’s most outspoken vaccine experts believes the U.S. is already forgetting a critical lesson reinforced during the covid-19 pandemic: Vaccines save lives. Dr. Peter Hotez said ...

Hurricane Helene’s devastation is shining a spotlight on former President Trump and his running mate Sen. JD Vance’s (R-Ohio) skepticism of well-established climate science. Trump this week claimed ...

In 2014 astronomers announced a whopper of a discovery: primordial waves from the earliest moments of the big bang. The South Pole telescope results validated the long-standing but still-shaky ...

Chapter 1: The Harp That Came Back: My Journey Begins -- Chapter 2: Going Public with Private Knowing: Breaking the Silence -- Chapter 3: Disavowing the Extraordinary: Personal Cost and Public ...