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This is a serious question. We ( Sandwalk readers) know that there's a lot of science misinformation being spread in the popular scienc...

I've written quite a bit about the perceived conflict between science and philosophy and defended my view that science is best described...

I once participated in a discussion about introducing indigenous ways of knowing in the Ontario science curriculum. The idea was to have hig...

There have been dozens of studies on the possible harmful effects of glyphosate. There are many well-funded organizations and tons of lawyer...

Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup®, is back in the news in the United States so I think it's time to repost an ...

I've been reading Mathew Cobb's biography of Francis Crick and a sentence in the Prologue caught my eye. Cricks' scientifi...

The first issue of Nature in 2026 has an article by science writer David Adam. The Science of 2050 Nature explores the future b...

There's been a lot of talk about how to teach science literacy. The discussion in the USA centers around STEM (science, engineering, te...

At the end of last year (2024) I posted an article about distinguished molecular biologist William Hasletine who published an article in Fo...

Bruce Alberts, 1 Karen Hopkin, and Keith Roberts have published an essay on Why Trust Science . In this essay, we address the que...

Scientific American has endorsed Kamala Harris , a candidate for president of the United States. I think this is a mistake and so do many o...

China has become a science powerhouse and it achieved this goal, in part, by sending its young scientitsts abroad to train in universities i...

I'm finding it increasingly difficult to understand the scientific literature even in subjects that I've been following for decades....

There's an old saying that birds of a feather flock together. It means that people with the same interests tend to associate with each o...

New names for very large and very small weights and sizes have been adopted. Last November's meeting of the General Conference on ...

Don't bother trying to reason with a publisher. All of them have different views on proper style and every single one of them is absolut...

A friend recently posted a figure on Facebook that instructs authors in the correct way to prepare a summary paragraph (abstract) for public...

So many books ... so little time.

Most of us learned that science provides good answers to all sort of questions ranging from whether a certain drug is useful in treating COV...

Richard Dawkins has written an essay for The Spectator in which he says, "[Science is not] a social construct. It’s simply true. Or a...