Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. It all is demonstrably getting worse and worse, with each ...

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Sander van der Linden was working in his office at the University of Cambridge a few years ago when he received a strange phone call. A professor of social psychology and director of the Cambridge ...

The roots of American anti-vaccination ideology go way back to 1721, when a smallpox epidemic threatened Boston. Cotton Mather, the Hub’s leading minister, had learned about inoculation — infecting ...

Editor’s Note: This February, for Black History Month, the Pottstown School District is making regular posts on its Facebook page. The district is paying tribute both to the accomplishments of some of ...

Fox News agreed to pay $787.5 million to Dominion Voting Systems for false claims about voting irregularities. But misinformation rarely gets severely punished, and it remains an enormous problem in ...

THE MOST dramatic showdown between humans and smallpox probably took place in Europe in the 18th century. The disease had by then been gathering momentum for a couple of hundred years, and despite the ...

In her poem “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,” Adrienne Rich writes of a woman who is “Poised, trembling and unsatisfied, before / an unlocked door, that cage of cages.” The subject of these lines is ...