When should we trust the evidence and the experts who interpret it for us? A new study makes headlines. It shows a diet works ...

A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...

CU Boulder professors Noah Finkelstein of physics and Valerie Otero of education have won the 2023 Svend Pedersen Award and Lecture from Stockholm University Two experts in science education at the ...

"There should be a balance between simplifying complex science-based concepts for the jury, but also presenting enough clear and convincing data to support the expert’s opinions." Q: The COVID-19 ...

“. . . in thinking about an ethical framework, we may do well to transfer our attention from an individual-focused system that sees the problem as how to hold individuals to proper standards of ...

New advisors to the Food and Drug Administration on antidepressants, menopause drugs and other topics have conflicts of interest and contrarian views. Nearly 80 researchers sent a letter to the FDA ...

Annotation The book explores the contratutions & challenges presented when scientific authority centers the sealm of environmental affairs. Annotation It seems self-evident that science plays a ...

For the first time since the report was launched more than three decades ago, UNESCO invited researchers and experts worldwide to express their interest in joining the author teams through an open ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed ...

“The cross-examination process is the tool that we utilize in the courtroom along with the advocacy of lawyers. What I think is missing from some scientific research that’s done for purposes of ...