Global warming to exceed Paris target despite climate pledges – but increase is slowing
The United Nations says current pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions put the planet on course to blow past the limit for global warming countries…
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MBFC Data Used in Research Study: Sentinel node approach to monitoring online COVID-19 misinformation
Matthew T. Osborne, Samuel S. Malloy, Erik C. Nisbet, Robert M. Bond & Joseph H. Tien Scientific Reports volume 12, Article number: 9832 (2022) Cite this article Metricsdetails Abstract Understanding how different…
A cognitive scientist explains why humans are so susceptible to fake news and misinformation
By JULIAN MATTHEWS – Nieman Lab How fake news gets into our minds, and what you can do to resist it Although the term itself is…
Measles cases in U.S. surge nearly 20% in early April, CDC says
As of April 11, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recorded 555 cases of the disease since the beginning of the year, up…
Trump calls for cutting National Science Foundation funding by $1 billion
The White House’s fiscal 2020 budget proposal recommends lowering NSF’s budget to $7.1 billion, from its current level of $8.1 billion. The 12 percent decline would exceed…
Predatory Science Journals Hit By ‘Star Wars’ Sting
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper. The manuscript is an absurd mess of factual errors, plagiarism and movie…
Facts versus feelings isn’t the way to think about communicating science
The message might not come through if you put all your communication eggs in one theoretical basket. buydeephoto/Shutterstock.com John Cook, George Mason University and Sander…
When politicians cherry-pick data and disregard facts, what should we academics do?
Advocating for facts and evidence at the March for Science in California earlier this year. Matthew Roth/flickr, CC BY-NC Andrew J. Hoffman, University of Michigan…
Trump Administration Says It Isn’t Anti-Science As It Seeks to Slash EPA Science Office
by Lisa Song ProPublica, May 24, 2017, 1:28 p.m. When the city of Toledo temporarily lost access to clean drinking water several years ago after…
Trump’s Expected Pick for Top USDA Scientist Is Not a Scientist
by Jessica Huseman ProPublica, May 12, 2017, 7 p.m. The USDA’s research section studies everything from climate change to nutrition. Under the 2008 Farm Bill,…
People are taking to the streets to defend science – but it could come at a cost
Scientists protest against proposed cuts against science in the UK in 2010. Shane/Flickr, CC BY-SA Joseph Roche, Trinity College Dublin Scientists around the world are facing…
Why I’m supporting Saturday’s March for Science
Simon Chapman, University of Sydney In the early 16th century Copernicus published his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres)….
Why politicians think they know better than scientists – and why that’s so dangerous
Making a point at a Washington, D.C. protest in January. stephenmelkisethian/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Elizabeth Suhay, American University One of the most unexpected political developments in…
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’
CC BY-SA 3.0 NY Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed,…
Communications expert explains how science should respond to fake news
The rise of fake news has dominated the world of politics since the last U.S. election cycle. But fake news is not at all new…
Should scientists engage in activism?
Ivan Oransky, New York University and Adam Marcus, Johns Hopkins University Have you heard that scientists are planning a march on Washington? The move is…
Why you should care about the rise of fake journals and the bad science they publish
Graham Kendall, University of Nottingham There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals,…
Science must grow young advocates if it wants to connect with the real world
Tolullah Oni, University of Cape Town Science needs more “academic hybrids”: scientists who buck the stereotype of working in silos. This way of thinking must…