Does Surging Existential Dread Help Trump?
As fear of mortality rises, so does tribalism and support for authoritarian leaders, according to terror-management theory...
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Critical views of science in the news
Jolted by Her Own Illness, Pandemics Scholar Gains Insight into Botched COVID-19 Response
The author of book on the 2009 flu outbreak explains how a lack of effective tests crippled U.S. attempts to contain the coronavirus...
Meditating During the Plague
Is it ethical to seek serenity when the world is suffering?...
Philip Anderson, Gruff Guru of Physics and Complexity Research, Dies
The Nobel Prize winner espoused an antireductionist vision of science in which “more is different”...
Good News: Women Helping Women in STEM
A physics student has founded an international organization for mentoring women in male-dominated fields...
Optimism in a Dark Time
The coronavirus pandemic might have positive consequences...
The Coronavirus and Right-Wing Postmodernism
Does right-wing skepticism toward the coronavirus have anything to do with the postmodern philosophy of Thomas Kuhn?...
Astrology, Tarot Cards and Psychotherapy
With psychotherapists’ encouragement, troubled people are seeking solace in pseudoscientific practices such as astrology and tarot cards...
Scientific Rebel Freeman Dyson Dies
The iconoclastic physicist rejected the idea of an end point to the human quest for knowledge and happiness...
Responses to “The Cancer Industry: Hype vs. Reality”
Readers critique a journalist’s critique of cancer medicine...
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