We usually think of journalists as bringing us news about politics and world events. Analyzing a presidential election or an ongoing scandal helps inform us and holds powerful figures accountable on ...

Newly published research reexamines the evaluation of scientific findings, proposing a network-based methodology for contextualizing a publication’s impact. This new method, which is laid out in an ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Innovation has always been an engine of success for companies. However, coming up with novel ...

Science is under attack. As the new administration moves aggressively toward implementing its policies, the entire field could find itself the victim of decisions by individuals who lack the knowledge ...

In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...

According to Geoffrey Lloyd’s Science in Ancient Civilizations, there have been exactly seven civilizations that pursued objective, scientific knowledge in human history. However, only one of those ...

The scientific method can’t save us — because it doesn’t exist. Claims on television and Twitter notwithstanding, there is no such thing as “the scientific method,” no single set of steps or ...