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Focusing on the handful of papers that are retracted for political reasons can obscure the more important problems afflicting the field of academic publishing.
Scientists may have discovered a new weapon in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.
Though faith may provide comfort to some, it cannot produce reliable facts about nature that can be used to repair a divided populace.
Remembering Don Symons (1942–2024).
Climate change makes fires more dangerous. Government competence matters. And preventing catastrophic fires requires expensive, unpopular measures.
It’s very hard to extinguish a fire under these conditions.
A landmark report properly emphasises the application of science, not slogans, in establishing treatment protocols for trans-identified children.
We have lost an important scientist; we have also lost a wonderful man.
In the modern world, it is easy to forget our connection to celestial objects and how important that connection has been throughout human history.
The Extraordinary Life and Work of Frans de Waal
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.
This will mark out the university as a place to avoid if you’re hoping for a serious education.
Human beings need meaning, and a life in which all one’s needs were met by external agents would fail to provide it.
The Voyage of the Beagle is a literary masterpiece, as well as a scientific one.
Men are disappearing from science and academia. The public perception is, however, exactly the opposite.