The Practice of Science
On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams
For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.
How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture
The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.
Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck
One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation
The study of expertise itself helps us get past a “magic” view of science — and strengthen it against populist critiques.
Science needs conformity — but not the kind it has right now.