As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

The idea of evidence-based medicine has been around since the 1980s, and the term was officially coined in the 1990s. It arose from the realization that medicine was highly dependent upon the ...

Much has been written advising laypeople to navigate conflicting medical opinions and identify the golden truth amid the ...

It’s a familiar pandemic story: In September 2020, Angela McLean and John Edmunds found themselves sitting in the same Zoom meeting, listening to a discussion they didn’t like. At some point during ...

A recent high-profile paper suggesting that science is becoming dramatically less disruptive set the academic world abuzz. One interpretation of this finding — though by no means the only one — is ...

Junk science admitted during trial continues to undermine our judicial system, unfairly affecting individual parties, ...

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 ...