As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

The idea of evidence-based medicine has been around since the 1980s, and the term was officially coined in the 1990s. It arose from the realization that medicine was highly dependent upon the ...

A recent high-profile paper suggesting that science is becoming dramatically less disruptive set the academic world abuzz. One interpretation of this finding — though by no means the only one — is ...

It’s a familiar pandemic story: In September 2020, Angela McLean and John Edmunds found themselves sitting in the same Zoom meeting, listening to a discussion they didn’t like. At some point during ...

1. The norms of science, and its structure -- 2. Popper and Kuhn, and their conceptions of what science is -- 3. Laboratory life: Bruno Latour and rhetoricin science -- 4. Is the scientific paper a ...