A science historian looks to the past to understand our current moment, and how ghostwriting in scientific papers is harming ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think you're immune to misinformation? Time for a fact booster.

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 ...

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 ...

Massachusetts has long been a hotbed for innovation. Rebellious ideas — channeled through the scientific method — are the fuel for progress. Skepticism, like electricity, has crackled through the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Educators and scientists say they are encouraged by the latest version of the National Research Council's science education standards, an effort aimed at defining what United States K-12 students ...

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 ...