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Doctors have decades of experience fighting "fake news." Here’s how they win.
Some lessons from the health community’s long battle with misinformation.
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Key Issues in Science
Even though there has been a lot of advances in science and technology in the last century, there hasn't been any paradigm shifting revolutionary advance in our understanding of the universe since Einstein.
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Stephen Hawking is being sent to space
Stephen Hawking is going to go to space. The cosmologist and physicist will leave the Earth on board Richard Branson's spaceship, he has said. Professor Hawking told Good Morning Britain that he'd never dreamed he'd be able to head into space. But "Richard Branson has offered me a seat on Virgin Galactic, and I said yes immediately", he said.
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Trump’s budget is everything scientists have been fearing
The outline cuts at least $7 billion for research on climate change, diseases, and energy.
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Most scientists 'can't replicate studies by their peers'
Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" as scientists fail to reproduce others' work, it is claimed.
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Overpopulation – The Human Explosion Explained
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Ralph J. Cicerone, scientist who worked to protect the ozone layer, dies at 73
Dr. Cicerone was president of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Speaking with: Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about how bad research hurts us all
Darren Saunders speaks with Bad Pharma author Ben Goldacre about bad medical research reporting, and how greater transparency in research practices could improve public trust in science and medicine.
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Brian Cox: ‘It’s a book about how to think’
Professor Brian Cox is advanced fellow of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is about to embark on a nationwide tour to promote the ideas in his new book, Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos.
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Study shows one way that scientific progress is broken
Virtually nobody reads or understands rebuttals to scientific findings
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Stop Using the Word Pseudoscience
A guiding tenet has emerged through years of climate change discussions and other polarizing scientific debates: Framing issues as “us versus them”—with a clear ingroup and outgroup—encourages polarization. The term pseudoscience inherently creates this framing, pitting those who believe in “real” science against those who believe in “fake” science. But these discussions really indicate whom we trust. And maybe if people trust alleged pseudoscience over science, we should be discussing why, rather than dismissing their values and beliefs.
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Nasa just made all its research available online for free
Care to learn more about 400-foot tsunamis on Mars? Now you can, after Nasa announced it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. Care to learn more about 400-foot tsunamis on Mars? Now you can, after Nasa announced it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. The space agency has set up a new public web portal called Pubspace, where the public can find Nasa-funded research articles on everything from the chances of life on one of Saturn’s moons to the effects of space station living on the hair follicles of astronauts.
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Can't stop the feeling...because it's your somatosensory system
Our sense of touch. It allows us to tell when something is hot or cold or soft or coarse or painful or a lot of other things! It's crazy to think that one sense can do that much, but it's true. Find out how it works with Alie Astrocyte in this short video about the somatosensory system.
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On John Horgan's Confusions about Skepticism and Science
John Horgan is not a skeptic with a capital-S. Or a small one. Horgan is a science journalist who recently, controversially, spoke at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism (NECSS). He implored organized skeptics to choose “hard targets” over soft ones. That is, to criticize dubious and harmful claims from mainstream science and institutions. I will take Horgan’s advice by criticizing dubious and harmful claims made by a large institution, the media, starting with his. It is not clear Horgan understands what skepticism is or what organized skepticism is for.
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Dear "Skeptics," Bash Homeopathy and Bigfoot Less, Mammograms and War More
I hate preaching to the converted. If you were Buddhists, I’d bash Buddhism. But you’re skeptics, so I have to bash skepticism. I’m a science journalist. I don’t celebrate science, I criticize it, because science needs critics more than cheerleaders. I point out gaps between scientific hype and reality. That keeps me busy, because, as you know, most peer-reviewed scientific claims are wrong.
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Heuristic: Making Sense of Statistics
Very few of us truly understand numbers. Some simply aren't good at math, others haven't had the best learning methods, and there are people without the appropriate information. Regardless, we have a moral imperative to learn how to make sense of quantitative information when it affects our lives in the way it does.
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The Awesome Power of Citizen Science
You don't have to be a professional scientist to make a contribution to our collective knowledge. Today, we look at several projects that have benefitted from the power of citizen science!
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The Exhausting Life of a First-Year Science Teacher
What it’s like to learn how to teach—while teaching
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How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers – Alan Jay Levinovitz | Aeon Essays
By fetishising mathematical models, economists turned economics into a highly paid pseudoscience
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360° Attenborough and the Giant Dinosaur
David Attenborough meets the biggest animal ever to walk the Earth, in 360 - a Titanosaur.
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