Medical cannabis lacks adequate scientific backing for most of the conditions it is commonly used to treat, including chronic ...

CABI has launched a new course, Primer on Evidence Synthesis, as part of its free suite of learning resources alongside the Evidence Synthesis Skills Framework. This short course allows people to ...

A recent high-profile paper suggesting that science is becoming dramatically less disruptive set the academic world abuzz. One interpretation of this finding — though by no means the only one — is ...

Legislators make policy based on the information at hand, which isn't always the latest scientific findings. Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald via Getty Images Like most kids of the 1990s, I attended a ...

War on Science takes aim at science’s global culture wars. Edited by controversial physicist Lawrence Krauss, it argues ...

The Pew Research Center recently reported that one in five American adults - and a striking 43% of adults under 30 - get ...

Recently, questions have been raised about climate science. The National Academies have addressed many of these questions in our independent, evidence-based reports. We are speaking out to support the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. New research confirms that fossil human ...

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...

Frustrated by liars? Tired of how much misinformation spreads from podcaster bros, influencers and dubious sources? Wondering what you can do about it? A recent University of Maryland conference found ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...