"This week, in response to President Trump’s ongoing cuts to scientific research and staffing at federal agencies, nearly 2,000 of the ...

" - - - Around 90 percent of novel drugs that work in animal models fail in human clinical trials—an attrition rate that contributes to...

There is much scientific activity but such has yet to lead to the type and amount of progress that has happened historically. Sabine Hossenf...

While the Republican Party and conservatives, in general, are supporting bills in many states attacking transgender treatment ( link ), the ...

"It sounds like science fiction, but a couple of groups of genetic researchers are actively working on bringing back extinct species li...

"There is widespread concern that misinformation poses dangerous risks to health, well-being, and civic life . Despite a growing body o...

"Most studies on happiness find older people and ask them to recall what made them happy. But as we've just seen, memory is unrelia...

I recently re-posted a commentary on Facebook supporting the value of John B Calhoun's mice studies in understanding the stresses of ov...

I have commented several times regarding the value of Wikipedia, and its limitations. Click on the link below for a scholarly opinion on it....

This is what one can hear or read from the anti-science folks. However, if one is a science-based thinker, one does need the proper methods ...

"It’s a science thingy breakdown! This one can barely be called a science thingy. It’s not great. Dr. Alan Smerbeck is here to debunk o...

"To spot a liar, ignore everything except the level of detail in a person's story, new research suggests. "If a person provide...

"Scott Pelley meets with Carnegie Hero Fund awardees and reports on a possible difference in brain make-up for those who commit heroic ...

"The manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines say they are 95% effective. Peter Doshi re-examined the evidence and estimates they are only 19...

Recently, I have received a great deal of push-back on my Facebook page regarding some topics, for example: chiropractic, acupuncture, corpo...

The research supporting Roe v. Wade was clear: "Possibly there is no social measure with a higher benefit-to-cost ratio than the legali...

"Science journalists need to get a grip on reality. They need to develop a better appreciation of how science works. All too often they...

The anti-vaccine crowd is touting the results of an Israeli study that found that natural immunity post-COVID-19 infection was much more ef...

"Recently, a study by Lisa Littman has been making the rounds among the anti-woke. You may remember Littman mentioned in the amazing 2...

" I was asked to write an article addressing the question of whether some research in physics has become too speculative. I did as I wa...