A process I’ve been involved with at a journal recently exploded. It was meant to resolve a controversy about a publication, not…

Recently, I wrote about a depressingly successful campaign against the introduction of a next generation Covid vaccine in Japan. It is a…

“When you see the term ‘preprint’ in a scientific news article, what do you interpret it to mean?” That’s the key question…

I’m glad researchers didn’t waste this chance to study public trust while attention to scientists was so intense – and especially since…

The authors got me thinking about the ways scientific uncertainty enables people to lead themselves, and others, astray. That wasn’t what they…

This is my fifth annual research roundup about journal peer review. And we’re only averaging about one randomized trial a year. This…

“Thousands of scientists are cutting back on Twitter, seeding angst and uncertainty.” And Mastodon was the most common destination if they opened…

About a week ago, I created an English Wikipedia page for a woman who had an extraordinary life, and left a phenomenal…

It’s been a relief to migrate my newsletter away from Substack. I’d started on Substack because it was so easy. It was…

I rarely look at Twitter these days, but it’s obvious people are having extremely different experiences there. I see some people talking…

It’s coming up to 6 months since Musk took over Twitter, sending many of us over to Mastodon. “Scalloped growth” is what…

These days I find the literature on improving critical thinking and scientific literacy kind of depressing. The many overlapping and diverging concepts…