DHS Invokes Immigration Enforcement to Justify Gathering Americans' DNA(reason.com)

18 points by pseudolus 9 months ago | 4 comments

GDP is the wrong tool for measuring what matters (2020)(scientificamerican.com)

36 points by simonfxr 3 years ago | 10 comments

Homeschooling hits record numbers(reason.com)

263 points by bilsbie 11 months ago | 704 comments

Deplatforming Backfired(reason.com)

10 points by sbuttgereit 10 months ago | 1 comments

Americans Overwhelmingly Support Science, but Some Think the U.S. Is Lagging(scientificamerican.com)

34 points by beardyw 9 months ago | 31 comments

The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)

49 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 32 comments

A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.

The Fall of Scientific American(thenation.com)

49 points by littlexsparkee 2 days ago | 32 comments

A Nation investigative article on how Springer Nature pressured Scientific American's editorial staff over political coverage, leading to unionization efforts and the magazine's sale to LabX.

Journalists should be skeptical of all sources including scientists(natesilver.substack.com)

424 points by amadeuspagel 3 years ago | 299 comments

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin Substack essay arguing journalists should scrutinize scientists as sources, citing prominent scientists' misinformation on COVID's origins.

U.S. science is in chaos(scientificamerican.com)

795 points by presspot 4 months ago | 942 comments

Scientific American feature by Adam Rogers examining how the compact between U.S. science and politics broke down, leaving American science in chaos.

Scientific fraud has become an 'industry,' analysis finds(science.org)

402 points by pseudolus 1 year ago | 350 comments

Science magazine news article reporting an analysis finding that sophisticated global networks are infiltrating journals to publish fake scientific papers.

Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed(scientificamerican.com)

692 points by headalgorithm 1 year ago | 802 comments

Scientific American podcast episode on how to cope with outrage fatigue and stay informed without burning out amid overwhelming news.

CDC data are disappearing(theatlantic.com)

614 points by doener 1 year ago | 479 comments

The Atlantic article by Katherine J. Wu reporting that the CDC has removed scientific data from public view, with more removals possibly to follow.