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They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science.

How to tell the difference between scientific and conspiratorial skepticism.

How a bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral.

What if the first woman scientist was simply the first woman?

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

Scientists putting their lives on the line can take heart from a great astronomer.

Scientists putting their career and health on the line can take heart from Galileo.

Tracking the information zombie apocalypse.

Take comfort that we live on a very old, durable planet.

A masterclass on what science needs now.

Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize.