Stories by tokenadult

Let’s Kill All the Mosquitoes

The Poisonous Reach of the College-Admissions Process

A 'Cancer Moonshot,' You Say? Start Paving

Statisticians: When We Teach, We Don’t Practice What We Preach [pdf]

Lancet retracts 1992 paper by “father of nutritional immunology”

Up for Debate: Should We Eradicate All Mosquitoes from the World?

The problem in American education isn't dumb teachers, but dumb teacher training

World less free for 10th year, study shows

More Trouble for Antioxidants

Chief of China's Stats Bureau Under Investigation

Maths in a minute: Bayes' theorem

Cure Is About Caring, Not Curing: Placebos, Alt. Med., and Patient Comfort

Study Trying to Explain Why South Asians Have High Rates of Heart Disease

Science-based medicine versus the Flint water crisis

The Heroes of CRISPR

Inspiring Concern for Others and the Common Good Through College Admissions

Is 85% of health research really “wasted”?

Self-Driving Cars Will Be Ready Before Our Laws Are

Why bad science won’t ever die

Controversial CRISPR history sets off an online firestorm

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