I hadn’t been aware of the term science populism until a video about it did the rounds recently. It was a light-bulb…

The first shot against critical appraisal training for clinicians came quickly – in the opening lecture, in fact. And it seemed to…

In a post late last year, I used the phrase “contrarian Covid takes”. On Twitter, Lars Henning asked, “what exactly does it…

I don’t know when describing yourself as a “medical conservative” became a thing. I only noticed it recently, persistently popping up among…

Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…

You would think a time when we needed to be able to “follow the science” would have been systematic evidence’s shining hour…

Science is a profession where critique is integral to the work itself. So you might think we’d all have both criticizing, and…

“Never have heroes” – I’ve heard some version of that a lot in the last couple of months, from people disillusioned by…

Claims of conflicts of interest have been one of the – let’s call it interesting – parts of being in debates…

I think the main thing I learned – very painfully – in 20 years as a health consumer advocate, is…