Science

How do we know what we know? The question that untangles Magisteria’s science and religion

Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, by Nicholas Spencer, paints a history of entwined attempts to understand, glossing over religion's response to conflicting ideas

Greenwashing: The dark side of the sustainable fashion industry

With the rise of conscious capitalism, companies are profiting through greenwashing, leaving consumers at risk of deception.

The recent Glasgow Low Emission Zone protest turned out to be more of a ‘low information zone’

Glasgow's Low Emission Zone protest drew support from QAnon believers and antivaxxers - even Piers Corbyn turned up, to collect money from the crowd

The power of placebo-controls has little to do with the placebo-effect

Randomisation ensures treatment and control groups are as similar as possible when beginning a study - placebo controls ensure they are similar during a study

Not right about nitrites? Mouse study provokes media scaremongering over cured meat

Headlines warn of the carcinogenic chemicals in school meals, but before we ban smoked sausages and nitrites, we'll need to see some better evidence

Headlines about “talking” fungi raise the question: Do we really discover languages?

Two recent studies claim to find evidence of communication within chimpanzees and fungi, but do they have the complexity of what we'd call language?

The top 10 most infuriating climate change memes, and how to debunk them

Rather than engage with the realities of climate change, some people prefer the comforting reassurance of denialism, packaged in these 10 infuriating memes

“What Nonsense!” – unpacking popular pseudosciences for a Brazilian audience

As pseudoscience flourishes in Brazil, What Nonsense! by Carlos Orsi and Natalia Pasternak seeks to redress the balance, and push back against irrationality
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