The acclaimed documentary filmmaker's guide to some of the key clips from his latest series.

A psychology journal has retracted a seminal 2002 paper on deadlines and procrastination coauthored by behavioral scientist Dan Ariely of Duke University just days after a team of sleuths published…

Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.

This report was designed, analysed and written by Dr Matthew S. Nurse and Associate Professor Will J. Grant, and funded by the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) at ...

The whole thing makes me furious

Last week Donald Trump signed an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccines, sprouting links to autism – which have been definitively disproved by scientists and health organisations around ...

ATHERTON, CA—With a hand-painted sign taped to the front of their fold-up card table, local Bay Area children Rowan and Amanda Denton reportedly opened an adrenochrome stand Wednesday along a busy sub...

The media have the power to make Hanson’s tyrannical attitudes and behaviour a central issue, and their failure to use this power has only emboldened her.

A massive new meta-analysis concludes that certainty, security, and belonging play a major role, and my own research finds that perceived…

From wrapping your phone in foil to secret phones, ABC NEWS Verify takes a look into some of these false claims and real concerns about AusAlert to try to answer a few questions.

Insider accounts reveal the scale of the health secretary's ambitions to curb childhood immunizations and unearth a link between vaccines and autism.

Generative AI is enabling students to avoid the friction of learning—the struggle to synthesize, organize, and articulate ideas that is central to the educational process.

Are the disappearances or deaths of eleven US scientists really linked in a nefarious plot? Or just a conspiracy theory with roots in a bizarre broadcast that rocked Britain in the 1970s?

The fight to claim a 3.5-tonne space rock didn't just kickstart a publicity battle that divided an empire — it also left a gaping hole in culture. Centuries on, the question remains: Who owned it?

Conspiracy theories can have social and political consequences, but why do people believe them and what conversational techniques work to address them?

Tourism operators are celebrating the reopening of the southern WA landmark, the Gloucester Tree, with visitors making the 37-metre climb to its peak for the first time since its closure three years a...

During a live BBC News broadcast, reporter Paul Njie interviews a Cape Verde fan when the country suddenly scores its first ever World Cup goal against Uruguay in the 2026 World Cup.

Do the assumptions of metascience hold up to close scrutiny?

A Lancet correspondence described how over a three-year period, 4,046 references in 2,810 published scientific journal articles had been fabricated, many likely by AI.

The feathered friend was recorded in half of the 153,000 surveys in BirdLife Australia’s Aussie Bird Count

Hundreds of millions of dollars are being made on well-timed oil bets occurring just before Trump posts. But can we call it insider trading?

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Health misinformation is now being generated and spread by those in charge of the United States’ public health system. Multiple interventions against health misinformation have been identified and are...

Conspiracy theories can have social and political consequences, but why do people believe them and what conversational techniques work to address them?

Surveys may overestimate belief in conspiracy theories because of trolls and jokers – but genuine believers can still cause real-world harm.

FDA has suppressed studies on COVID-19 vaccines and Shingrix, a shingles vaccine.