Sociology

One question for Sara Constantino, a psychologist and public policy researcher at Northeastern University.

One question for Jennifer Carlson, a sociologist at the University of Arizona.

Same-sex couples are everywhere in the animal kingdom. Only humans make a big deal about it.

One question for Mathieu Poirier, an assistant professor of social epidemiology at York University.

The story of the tennis star spotlights the pseudoscience that bedevils science and society.

A masterclass on what science needs now.

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

Why intellectual laziness doesn’t have to lead to groupthink.

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

To make social structures more equal, we can’t blind ourselves to genetics.

How to tell the difference between scientific and conspiratorial skepticism.

Stable cultural forms do not have to result from close replication; they can emerge continuously out of subtle changes.Illustration by VectorMine / Shutterstock Something about me must remind people of a blind 17th-century poet. My last name, Miton, is French, yet people outside of France invariably misspell it as “Milton”—as in the famed English author, […]

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