Science practice
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The Attack of Zombie Science
They look like scientific papers. But they’re distorting and killing science. -
We Have to Talk About Doubt
How to tell the difference between scientific and conspiratorial skepticism. -
When a Good Scientist Is the Wrong Source
How a bad “fact” helped the lab-leak hypothesis go viral. -
Gaia, the Scientist
What if the first woman scientist was simply the first woman? -
How Eugenics Shaped Statistics
Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.
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You Want to See My Data? I Thought We Were Friends!
Stuart Ritchie is a Lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His new book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, explains the ideas in this comic, by Zach Weinersmith, in more detail, telling shocking stories of scientific error and misconduct. It also proposes […]
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Galileo the Science Publicist
Scientists putting their lives on the line can take heart from a great astronomer.
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How Science Trumps Denial
Scientists putting their career and health on the line can take heart from Galileo.
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The Problem with Scientific Credit
Our algorithm said a courtesy driver should have won the Nobel Prize. -
Geology Makes You Time-Literate
A scientist tells us how her field instills timefulness. -
Thomas Kuhn Threw an Ashtray at Me
Why Errol Morris is still outraged by the famous philosopher of science. -
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
John Carreyrou talks to Nautilus about the lessons of a $1 billion fraud. -
How My Nobel Dream Bit the Dust
My team thought we’d proved cosmological inflation. We were wrong.