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A new study finds people at the extreme end of conspiracy thinking have a 91% predicted chance of holding incompatible beliefs.

Starting in May 2025, the US government implemented an immigration policy that targeted noncitizen researchers for visa denials, visa revocations, detention, and deportation on the basis of the topics...

A decade-old claim that conspiracist thinkers endorse mutually exclusive theories at once was fading. A Bayesian reanalysis of nearly 8,600 people, plus a new experiment, revives it, and pins the effect on two mechanisms.

“If there’s someone having a negative impact on science, it is Cofnas, not his critics. ” – Pieter Beck

Conservatives are using a Massachusetts murder case to argue for an end to women’s voting rights

Edwin Eisendrath is joined by Michael Mann, climatologist, geophysicist, and author of “Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World.” The discussion examin...

How nationalists, theocrats and tech titans turned their backs on a shared future

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

New evidence released Monday shows that Dan Ariely, professor of business administration in the Fuqua School of Business, likely tampered with or fabricated data in an influential research paper from ...

A new paper in Psychological Science (.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Contr…

Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

How American military planners anticipated failure in Iran

A bottom-up stack with Nix, uv, and renv

Look at our blazing forests and parched cities. Green policies aren’t a ‘luxury’, and we can’t burn more oil and gas. People need the truth, says London mayor Sadiq Khan