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How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science

Health

How the covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of misleading science

Amid the global coronavirus outbreak, a second epidemic of preliminary, unverified and misinterpreted research has broken out. Can it be fixed?

News

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Physics

Correlation or causation? Mathematics can finally give us an answer

Features

How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

Humans

How I went from selling MDMA to researching the science of its effects

Regulars

eye through magnifying glass

Humans

I scanned thousands of research images by eye to expose academic fraud

Regulars

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

Humans

Harsh peer reviewer comments disproportionately affect minorities

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Dominic Cummings

Technology

Revealed: Details of Dominic Cummings' plan for new UK research agency

News

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

Humans

Science's fake news problem: How funding pressures drive bad research

Comment

Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding

Humans

Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding

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Science protest

Environment

Naomi Oreskes asks "why trust science" in an age of denialism

Culture

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Life

Are experiments on how animals think ever justified?

As research reveals ever more similarities between the human experience and that of many animals, it becomes harder to defend the pursuit of such knowledge

Leader

Comment

Longer life, flying, mind-bending drugs: Dreams that science made real

Comment

Life

Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

Insight

Technology

Jeffrey Epstein scandal raises questions over who should fund science

Insight

Survey says scientists mistrust a large amount of published research

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