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Journalism Can Help Expose Bad Science And Trigger Real-World Change, New Study Shows

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Wrong, Reno Gazette Journal, a Flawed Climate Study Doesn’t Prove Future Desertification for Reno

Good science depends on testing assumptions against reality. Good journalism depends on questioning scientific claims before presenting them to the public as proven. In this case,...

Want the Public to Trust Science Again? In Four Lessons, Here’s How NOT to Do It

Ethan Siegel’s approach to public discussion of science is common enough: the exalted scientist reaches down to the ignorant masses. Source

Retraction Watch Reports on Designer Science Fiasco, but Mischaracterizes It

The headline is glaringly inaccurate. It says, “University press removes book about intelligent design for misquoting ID proponent.” Source

Lots of detail on the continuing “Q collar” scandal and why we should probably be doing more coverage of that sort of sc...

The Q collar, I hope you don’t remember, is a neck accessory that is advertised as “proven” to protect athletes’ brains, but the studies purporting to offer this proof are suspect....

Follow Science, New York Times, Coral’s Are Doing Well Amid Modest Climate Change

In the end, Glabicki and the New York Times went off half-cocked, reporting on a single study’s findings about coral reef conditions without checking them against other sources of...

America's health secretary borrows scientific credentials he does not have

Conspiracy theorist and roadkill enthusiast RFK Jr. told CNN's Dana Bash she probably could not understand his argument because she was not a scientist. "Well, you're not either,"...

The Scienceâ„¢ Strikes Again at the BMJ

No, ScienceDaily, Data Show No ‘Sharp Acceleration’ in Warming

ScienceDaily’s readers deserved to hear that distinction. Instead, they received another clickbait style headline announcing certainty with possible future consequences where the u...

Measles by New York Times Weasels: Fails Scientific Scrutiny

by cotobuzz at CDN - While the news article is not a scientific publication (paper, preprint, methods paper, or institutional surveillance report), we run it through the Generaliz...

EDITORIAL: We followed science and got a little lost

It seems Fauci was as concerned about his media stardom as he was with the virus.

A COVID-19 Study Retracted Over Misinformation, a Whale Feeding Frenzy in Greenland, and How Daily Vitamin D Benefits th...

Discover the top stories from Aug. 15 to Aug. 21, 2026, including a recent retraction of a COVID-19 study and how Greenland has turned into a feeding ground for thousands of whales...

Scholarship Hits the Fan: Designer Science Now Gone from Multiple Sites

The lack of scrutiny and skepticism by professional academics reflects a crisis of its own. Source

Always Trust the Science? Researchers Learn Their Woolly Mammoth Backbone Actually Belonged to Whale

“Science” is not a monolithic set of truths that the general public should only eagerly await to be bestowed upon them by elites who supposedly know better. A more honest […] The p...

How bad data fuels MAGA criticism of Fauci and vaccines

“We tell pregnant women don’t even have glass of wine, and yet we coerced them, convinced them, sometimes mandated them to get an experimental gene therapy as early as the first tr...

Real Tragedy Is That Fauci Is a Bad Scientist

Think Robert Oppenheimer, if Robert Oppenheimer had built a bomb that didn't work.

NPR’s Claim That Climate Change Is Destroying Children’s Summer Fun Is Ridiculous

Good journalism distinguishes between weather and climate. It also distinguishes between compelling human-interest stories and scientific proof. National Public Radio’s article blu...

Is Environmental Science Less Objective?

An analysis of the use of subjective language in scientific papers.

What In The World Is Happening At Nature?

By now, the tragic story of Jason Arday is well-known. But it seems that many people are doing their best to not learn anything from it. In this case, “many people” seems to be the...

The Real Epidemic Is (Again) the Legacy Media

Cyclospora is at least the fourth major media effort this year to make Americans believe that Robert F. Kennedy has destroyed their public health infrastructure. Total deaths: zero...

This Week in Science: Mosquito Magnets, Bonus Benefits of GLP-1s, And More

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When Medical Science Refuses to Correct Itself

Science is supposed to be self-correcting. But what happens when the journals entrusted to uphold this principle become its gatekeepers? The post When Medical Science Refuses to Co...

Sunday links: science denial

Fund managementIt's hard to overstate the impact of the indexing revolution. (bobpisani.substack.com)Will ETFs embrace perpetual futures? (etfcentral.com)NvidiaA look at Nvidia's...

Not THAT Science…

by Tom Stiglich at CDN - Click to read the rest HERE-> Not THAT Science… first posted at Conservative Daily News