An exhortation for doctors to get more nutrition education so they can advise patients on diet. But is that as simple as it seems?
Read more...When an Alzheimer’s paper came under scrutiny, correcting the scientific record meant battling much bigger problems.
Read more...Why peer review is not what you might think it is, and what can be done to remedy that.
Read more...Significant investment has been put toward brain research, including the development of new technologies to treat some conditions. These technologies may very well improve lives, but they also raise a host of ethical issues
Read more...So how did language, and specifically syntax, develop?
Read more...An important Tucker Carlson interview on how Big Food and Big Pharma are profit from worsening American health outcomes.
Read more...How bad incentives and funders’ love of glitz lead to poor scientific research outcomes and demotivated academics.
Read more...Prehistory professor Steven Mithen’s “The Language Puzzle” explores the mysteries of when and how we began to speak.
Read more...Yves here. We linked to reports of the discovery of so-called dark oxygen, but we did not realize that this finding could argue for restricting deep sea mining. By Felicity Bradstock, a freelance writer specializing in energy and finance. Originally published at OilPrice Potato-shaped metallic nodules deep under the Pacific Ocean produce oxygen in complete […]
Read more...Influential studies from the VA St. Louis take a broad view of long Covid. Not every expert agrees with the approach.
Read more...Persistent political and public health failures expose us to pandemics, while vastly underestimating their long-term health effects.
Read more...How concept anchoring creates attachment to and supports funding for not-so-hot ideas, such as in Alzheimer’s research.
Read more...Bird flu as a case study in the category error of libertarian medicine, the misuse of preprints, and resulting poor public health policy.
Read more...In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.
Read more...Finally, a rigorous study on mask use shows definitively that masks do indeed work, as in reduce transmission of respiratory diseases.
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