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Bourdain’s brother, Christopher, has called for the publisher, Simon & Schuster, to halt publication until the book’s ‘many errors were corrected.’
Disinviting a person to speak on a university campus adds up to abandoning freedom and speech.
It’s time to stop confusing sterile debates and pseudoscience with the healthy controversies that nourish scientific progress.
Myths that fluoridated water isn’t natural, safe, doesn’t work and shouldn’t be used to make up infant formula persist. Here’s what the evidence says.
Outlawing evolution in schools is based on creationist misconceptions – here’s how to counter them
Companies historically have avoided taking stands on contentious issues, but new research suggests consumers punish businesses that don’t stand up for their core values.
From The Monkees to Mariah Carey, lip-syncers have been getting mocked for decades.
Controversial arguments and ideas should be listened to and open to public scrutiny. Only then can we expose those ideas found wanting and lacking any credibility.
When gunmen (thought to be radicalized Muslims) burst into the offices of Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7, the front page of the satirical newspaper’s most recent edition featured a caricature…
I was the lead of a team of computer scientists at Rutgers that published a paper this past August titled, “Toward Automated Discovery of Artistic Influence.” In that paper we reported on our research…
The debate over climate change is relatively young while nuclear power and pesticides have been heated topics since the 1960s, and fluoridation since the 1950s. So what is it about these scientific controversies…
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Emeritus reader in science education and communication, University of Sussex
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Assistant Professor of French, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Professor of Philosophy of Education, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art & AI Lab, Rutgers University
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Neuroscientifique, directrice des affaires scientifiques et médicales, Institut du Cerveau (ICM)
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