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We love putting names to things, especially if those names are scientific. Just look at the variety of phenomena people love to refer to as the Dunning-Kruger effect: the idea that other people (not me!) overestimate what they know, the sighting of someone being aggressively wrong, or simply the belief that dumb people don’t know they are dumb. The fact that science has studied a phenomenon and plastered a name over it feels good. But sometimes, when we dig into the origin of these scientific stories, we discover they have been heavily distorted in the telling.

Scientists are unsure about the age of the universe. Two methods of measuring the universe's expansion have yielded different results, leaving scientists in ...

This weekend, the U.S. Navy announced that it is temporarily closing four submarine repair drydocks in Washington due to earthquake risk. This closure stemmed from a recent seismic assessment for Puge

The latest issue of Nature, one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, has a long (4-page) feature about the “decolonization” of mathematics. As we’ve learned …

Intellectual elitism, credentialism, and classism must end. Restoring trust in public health—and our democracy—depends on it.

'Peer review' of scientific articles before publication is often considered the 'gold standard' of reliability, but its luster has become tarnished by greed -- the desire of the research community to tap into research funds, the pressure on scientists to publish or perish, and publishers of scientific journals seeking to maximize profits.

Well, here we go again. Unsurprisingly, the University of California at Berkeley has revamped its biology curriculum, turning courses in three departments into propaganda mills as well as vehicles …

Making researchers account for their methods before data collection is a long-overdue step.

Decolonisation of science just one example of ways universities genuflect to sociopolitical ideologies

The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the last half-century.

Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing

The President of Stanford (Marc Tessier-Lavigne) has recently come under investigation for a series of neuroscience papers that apparently had fake imagery in them. It remains to be seen how it will all play out. What’s intriguing is that Tessier-Lavigne has been

Marc Tessier-Lavigne faces years of allegations of scientific misconduct in his research, including papers he co-authored containing images which researchers say appear “definitely photoshopped.

Faculty are struggling to hire postdocs, delaying research projects and pressuring universities to consider improving salaries and benefits as endowments are shrinking.

Social sciences research is plagued by murky definitions and measurements. Here’s why that matters.

Opinion | An influential paper on amyloid protein and Alzheimer’s potentially fabricated data. Why did it take 16 years to flag?

They are torn between being journalists and being PR agents for their sources.

Critical theory is an existential threat to Enlightenment values, public health, and the scientific enterprise.

Daley and Fauci would have understood the distinction between working with a Chinese vaccine program and taking enormous sums from Evergrande

For-profit conferences that masquerade as legitimate academic events but lack trusted selection and peer review processes are becoming more common. Here’s why that matters.

A long time ago, I predicted that among all academic disciplines, science would be the least likely to become woke. I was wrong. These disciplines, I thought, are wedded to facts and to open discus…

A once-respected journal has announced that it will be subordinating science to ideology.

Guardians of the profession discard merit in order to alter the demographics of their field.

Megyn Kelly is joined by Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin to discuss new faulty claims from "experts" about how COVID originated in a market, how science...

Last month, drug company Genentech reported on the first clinical trials of the drug crenezumab, a drug targeting amyloid proteins that form sticky plaques in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease patients. The drug had been particularly effective in...

Ohio State University investigations identified misconduct by two scientists in lab of high-profile cancer researcher Carlo Croce. The university has cleared Croce of misconduct, but disciplined him over management problems.

Please take a look at some short clips (articles further below) in order to get a broad view of the problems in science: - "relentless pursuit of...

For the past year and a half of COVID, we have been told by those supposedly in the know, to “follow the science.”  Those who question the science are at best called names, like “deniers” or “racists”, and at ...

When good science is suppressed by the medical-political complex, people die Politicians and governments are suppressing science. They do so in the public interest, they say, to accelerate availability of diagnostics and treatments. They do so to support innovation, to bring products to market at unprecedented speed. Both of these reasons are partly plausible; the greatest deceptions are founded in a grain of truth. But the underlying behaviour is troubling. Science is being suppressed for political and financial gain. Covid-19 has unleashed state corruption on a grand scale, and it is harmful to public health.1 Politicians and industry are responsible for this opportunistic embezzlement. So too are scientists and health experts. The pandemic has revealed how the medical-political complex can be manipulated in an emergency—a time when it is even more important to safeguard science. The UK’s pandemic response provides at least four examples of suppression of science or scientists. First, the membership, research, and deliberations of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) were initially secret until a press leak forced transparency.2 The leak revealed inappropriate involvement of government advisers in SAGE, while exposing under-representation from public health, clinical care, women, and ethnic minorities. Indeed, the government was also recently ordered to release a 2016 report on deficiencies in pandemic preparedness, Operation Cygnus, following a verdict from the Information Commissioner’s Office.34 …