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Does distrust of scientists happen on both sides of the ideological divide?

Albert Alexander was the first known person treated with penicillin. While his ultimately fatal case is well known in medical histories, the cause of his illness has been misattributed for decades.

If science wants to maintain funding it needs to be more socially relevant, but that will require reforming the metrics we use to judge its success.

Canada must take the lead as a global champion of science as America under President Donald Trump presses its assault on fact and knowledge.

Academics are getting out of touch with the rest of society. This helps explains the sorry state of our public discourse on science.

Science communication and outreach can be motivated in ways other than reforming research funding bodies.

Since antiquity people have harnessed sound as a weapon, and the practice continues – in new high-tech ways – today.

C.P. Snow’s pessimistic view of “two cultures” – the arts and the sciences at war with each other, glowering across no man’s land, entrenched in their embattled fortress of true expression (as each saw…

When the denial machine goes after climate scientists it is, as one of them said, like the marines going into battle against boy scouts. The brutality of the attacks has once again been confirmed by the…

Despite the peace agreement in 2018 between the countries, critical fault lines persist.