When you consider how babies are made, you bump up against a basic math problem. No need for calculus here, or even the mental gymnastics of carrying the one. It鈥檚 a problem of doubling.
A central lesson we scientists learn in university is that science is complicated. Experiments that should yield either result A or B show us C, instead. Individual studies are flawed, and our...
Murkiness and wishful thinking about an emerging scientific subject can be spun into certainty. Where researchers are exploring the tenebrous depths of our nervous system with the equivalent of a...
The COVID-19 pandemic helped popularize a hair-raising phrase: 鈥渄o your own research.鈥� Portrayed as a call for self-empowerment, it became the tell-tale sign of someone who didn鈥檛 trust public...
If you have an interest in scientific research, you may have heard a weird term that sounds traumatizing from a urological perspective: p-hacking. Apparently, you鈥檝e read, some scientists use p...
Last September, we published an article I wrote on multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), specifically on a French-language report commissioned by the Government of Quebec to understand the state of...
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