Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...

Traditional methods of diagnosing mental-health conditions require patients to speak directly to a psychiatrist. Sensible in theory, such assessments can, in practice, take months to schedule and ...

The unlicensed critics of science and its methods—part of the plague of postmodernity—have simply got it wrong, even when they get David Hume right: Hume did, indeed, say that we can’t generalize ...

Just as school kids get to test their hands at science in earnest, they may come face to face with entrenched teaching methods, coded language and a no-error culture ...