Michael E. Mann's new book, and the sacrifice this Penn scientist made to fight the war against climate disinformation.
In this crazy era of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers, and people who think giants built Ohio’s mounds, appreciating the difference between actual facts and “alternative facts” has never been more ...
Republicans are beginning to break ranks as MAHA leadership inside and outside the administration pushes its agenda by ...
As Quirks & Quarks celebrates its 50th anniversary, Bob McDonald looks back at a half century of science and peers forward to the next 50 years.
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"When people become sick, any promise of a cure is beguiling. Common sense and the demand for evidence are easily supplanted by false hope. In this vulnerable state, the need for critical appraisal of ...
Since the days of cure-all elixirs that promised miraculous healing powers, people have been looking for immediate relief from their ailments. Who can blame them? Unfortunately, the desire to find a ...
On this channel, I try to separate the good science from the bad science, the pseudoscience. And I used to think that we’d be better off without pseudoscience, that this would prevent confusion and ...
Each year I like to write a post about the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. While advocating for higher standards of science in medicine we tend to spend much of our time criticizing pseudoscie ...