There is a high level of compliance with the variety of precautions people are being asked to take in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. People are staying at home, wearing masks in public, and ...

The first step to overcoming skeptics in your industry is to learn who doesn’t believe in you and why. You shouldn’t fear skepticism because it often masks interest. Work on proving your value and ...

If newsrooms want climate science skeptics to read and share news about climate change, researcher Renita Coleman recommends they do this: Leave the terms “climate change” and “global warming” out of ...

A popular internet meme juxtaposes a picture of a female scientist working in a lab captioned “Vaccine Research” with that of a woman looking at her smart phone while sitting on the toilet captioned ...

It is no secret that a small but perhaps increasing share of Americans is deeply angry at many if not all societal and political institutions. On the right, reasons for fury include fear of racial or ...

The year 2018 brought particularly devastating natural disasters, including hurricanes, droughts, floods and fires – just the kinds of extreme weather events scientists predict will be exacerbated by ...

Is God still speaking? Is anyone still listening? According to the Pew Research Center, only 63 percent of people in the United States self-identify as Christian—down from 75 percent ten years ago. As ...

Beltway Confidential Like Iraq War skeptics before them, COVID skeptics were right about almost everything By Peter Laffin April 27, 2023 06:00 AM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Beltway ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American One of the little pieties I like to spout is ...