He is exactly right, of course. I made much the same point in this space over a year ago. But it’s always welcome when someone of Rodgers’s stature, and with his platform, is willing to speak out. At ...

In the preface of the new book by vaccine expert and pro-science crusader Peter Hotez, there are several acknowledgments of a kind that may never have appeared before in a book like it. There, Hotez ...

Global academic scholars should stand up to protect academic values against the use of science for propaganda by the Chinese government, said Yangyang Cheng, postdoc research associate at Cornell’s ...

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T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

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LAST WEEK the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) made headlines when it issued a broadside that would, if followed by Congress, grant an open-ended license for biotech researchers to clone human life.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic sparked an explosion of health misinformation—the World Health Organization dubbed it an “infodemic.” In parallel with the triumphant development of safe and ...