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There’s a bad smell coming from medical research

The middle of the Covid-19 pandemic is not an auspicious moment to cast doubt upon the reliability of scientific research. However, writing in a BMJ blog, Richard Smith, who was editor of the prestigious medical journal The BMJ until 2004, launched a withering attack, saying that the system is riddled with fraudulent studies. “It may […]

by Michael Cook Aug 25, 2021Aug 25, 2021 / 3 mins /

Why smart people get suckered by ‘trust the science’

by Michael Cook Aug 11, 2021Aug 11, 2021 / 2 mins /

mtDNA

The ethical complexities of mitochondrial DNA donation

by Margaret Somerville Aug 6, 2021Aug 7, 2021 / 10 mins /

COVID world - European - American

Europe and America after COVID: an interview with Pierre Manent

by Nathaniel Peters Jun 21, 2021Jun 22, 2021 / 10 mins /

Insanity is scientists doing the same experiments over and over again and expecting different results

by Mark Sutherland Jun 17, 2021Jun 18, 2021 / 4 mins /

Viziv Technologies

The pros and cons of conning pros

by Karl D. Stephan May 26, 2021May 26, 2021 / 4 mins /

Re-examining the Shroud of Turin

by Francis Phillips May 4, 2021May 4, 2021 / 4 mins /

The Enlightenment

Faith and reason in the Enlightenment

by Donncha ÓhAodha Mar 14, 2021Mar 15, 2021 / 5 mins /

Asteroid dust, anyone?

by Karl D. Stephan Nov 16, 2020Nov 11, 2020 / 4 mins /

Those disagreeable inventors

by Karl D. Stephan Nov 11, 2020Nov 11, 2020 / 4 mins /

To beat Covid we need real science, not scientism

by Kurt Mahlburg Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020 / 3 mins /

Is it racist to say that 2+2=4?

by Kurt Mahlburg Aug 19, 2020Apr 22, 2021 / 3 mins /

‘The End of Gender’: a courageous book in times of trans

by Barbara Kay Jul 29, 2020Apr 22, 2021 / 4 mins /

Should we believe ‘the settled science’?

by Andrew Mahon Jun 9, 2020Jun 10, 2020 / 4 mins /

Knowledge, power and obsession

by J. Budziszewski Mar 30, 2020May 1, 2020 / 3 mins /