Prolegomena to an Understanding of the Replication Crisis in Science
Taking stock of the state of science’s replication crisis on the 20 year anniversary of JPA Ioannidis’ seminal article.
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Health Workers Fear It’s Profits Before Protection as CDC Revisits Airborne Transmission
Health industry employee objections have forced the CDC to rethink its weak guidance on aerosol transmission, but experts are not optimistic.
Read more...Ultra-Processed People in an Ultra-Processed World
The scientific, health, and political debate over the true cost of ultra–processed has just gone mainstream….which is late.
Read more...The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
An interview with renowned archaeologist Gary M. Feinman on the emergence of a global data set from our past that humanity can use to prosper—and avoid the biggest mistakes.
Read more...Book Review: Malcolm Harris’ “Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World”
The Silicon Valley citadel of capitalism is built on eugenics, bombs, and hatred of the working class, and it’s destroying the world.
Read more...IM Doc Reports on Covid Not Waning, Long Covid Effects as Lambert Lambastes Latest CDC Guidance as “Crime Against Humanity”
Lambert describes how the CDC destructively washes its hands of Covid as IM Doc chronicles how it is relentlessly continuing to harm patients.
Read more...Amid Pushback, the USGS Decides to Restore Its Pesticide Database
Scientists say the resource is crucial for understanding what agricultural chemicals are doing to human health and the environment.
Read more...Our Loss of Science in the 21st Century and How to Get It Back
KLG looks at how science has lost stature, and how that affects scientists and the current practice of science.
Read more...Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health Incompatible?
Pandemic-era have often pitted evidence-based medicine proponents against supporters of more traditional analytical methods.
Read more...Florida Defies CDC in Measles Outbreak, Telling Parents It’s Fine to Send Unvaccinated Kids to School
The US continues to embrace rolling back progress as Florida greenlights measles by letting infected kids go to school.
Read more...Possibility of Wildlife-to-Human Crossover Heightens Concern About Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic Wasting Disease, which is contagious and always fatal, is spreading rapidly in deer, and the barrier to a spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed.
Read more...On Plagiarism and Related Issues
Better tools make it easier to detect most types of plagiarism than in even the recent past. But where should gatekeepers go with that?
Read more...Book Review: The Secrets of Earth’s ‘Silvery Sister’
Earth may orbit the sun, but Rebecca Boyle argues that our planet cannot be understood without considering the moon.
Read more...When Science Meets Power: A Review
A look at what Covid-19 revealed was wrong about science (or more accurately, “the science”, and what might be done.
Read more...Where Do Living Creatures Get Their Sense of Rhythm?
Weighing the evidence for the idea that humans are not alone in having rhythm.
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