Virtue Signaling by Scientific Journals Backfires, New Study Finds
Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.
Nature's 2020 endorsement of Joe Biden changed no minds but did significantly undermine trust in science.
Thanks to tendentiously sloppy research, most Americans think vaping is just as dangerous as smoking. That’s not true.
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Reason first argued for researching such a planetary emergency cooling system 26 years ago.
If you look closely, you'll find a lot of contradictions.
A new paper from Mercatus shows how profit motive helped some nursing homes navigate COVID-19 better than others.
Researchers: Moscow’s social media meddling had little impact on the 2016 election.
The obvious problems with the article reflect a broader pattern that suggests a peer review bias against e-cigarettes.
A slew of recent research suggests parents should relax a bit about screen time.
Expanding options empowers families and improves education in the country and the city alike.
College students should be able to use their own judgment on COVID boosters, not be forced into them by learning institutions.
One critic calls it "arrogant vandalism," but advocates say it might be a necessary form of self-preservation.
It's best to avoid sparking up a doobie on a spaceship, but there are other ways to consume substances in the cosmos.
It’s a little thing, but thousands of people end up in jail over these types of avoidable technical violations.
Forensic techniques are nowhere near as reliable as cops shows pretend.
More than 900 had been held in isolation for more than a decade.
Here are some reasons trust in science has been dwindling.
Making the U.S. semiconductor industry dependent on subsidies is not the way to stick it to China.
However wonderful it is to imagine a world in which these things are possible, the government shouldn’t be shelling out millions to entertain speculation.
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Inside the dispute over gain-of-function research.
A bipartisan bill aimed to help the U.S. “compete” with China would only slow down scientific progress.
"There may be no inherent conflict between doing well and doing good".
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The best available evidence suggests fears about fetal risk, while not totally unwarranted, are often overblown.
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Americans are choosing jobs, brands, and friends for partisan reasons, say researchers.
People who suffer from a "tendency for interpersonal victimhood" present themselves as weak, hurt, and vengeful.
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In new studies, many people "reported that morally good beliefs require less evidence to be justified, and that, in some circumstances, a morally good belief can be justified even in the absence of sufficient evidence."
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The Justice Department concluded in 2018 that an anti-drug treaty requires stricter controls than the DEA originally planned.
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Rough calculations from two preliminary population screening studies in California.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health reportedly damaged monkeys' brains with acid before showing them pictures of fruit.
The consensus view that the American middle class "is dead, dying, hollowed out" is based on an "incomplete reading of the data," says economist Russ Roberts.