Within the world of statistics and reporting, it has become fashionable to attribute any and all disparities and inequities to discrimination. This is often either grossly exaggerated or, in some cases, simply not true. With the selective omission of facts,…
Few scientific efforts have been so dramatically ruined by politics as climate science. For over 30 years, thousands of climate scientists have pushed the message that the world is in serious jeopardy because of human-caused climate change. They have signed…
In our quest to unravel the universe’s most profound mysteries, few artifacts embody the intersection of science and faith as poignantly as the Shroud of Turin. This ancient cloth, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ,…
It was a proud moment when the Philippines, where I lived for over five years, became the first country to accept biotech Golden Rice. That was in 2021. It’s now a dismal moment that the nation’s highest courts, acting independently…
One of the more disturbing outcomes of the late 2023 congressional investigation into the prevalence of antisemitism on America’s college and university campuses was the discovery of widespread plagiarism. No sooner was it clear that Harvard president Claudine Gay may…
Elon Musk is many things: mega-billionaire, electric car mogul, meme poster. With such a tsunami of descriptors, it can be easy to overlook a simple question: What does Mr. X want? The answer, anticlimactic as it is, is hiding in…
Still, thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me! The present only toucheth thee: But Och! I backward cast my e’e, On prospects drear! An’ forward tho’ I canna see, I guess an’ fear! —Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” Ivan Pavlov’s salivating…
It doesn’t matter if you’re a journalist, a health nut, or the average American trying to make a winning point in an argument; you’ve likely uttered the words: “There’s a study that says…” Even those of us who harbor doubts…
It seems that most people have started to tune out the latest developments in artificial intelligence. That’s probably because, while many of those developments feel as though they belong in the prologue of an epic sci-fi novel, computer scientists and…
