After conventional wisdom seemed to make peanut allergies worse, a 15-year scientific journey led to “landmark” recommendations that now appear to be reducing their incidence.

Researchers and science journalists need to be transparent about nuance and context in the scientific process The US public’s ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to ...

Transparency in science is a delicate issue that directly influences public trust. A recent study explores this paradox where too much transparency can sometimes backfire. Byron Hyde, a researcher at ...

One of the things I love most about science is that sometimes it gets things wrong. In other disciplines, errors are fatal; chefs don’t benefit from poisoning their patrons. But scientists learn early ...

Pseudoscience is a system of explanations, methods, and assumptions that pose as science but don’t follow core scientific principles like testability and falsifiability. Pseudoscience is different ...

The scientific method has been the gold standard in analysis for at least 400 years, but you wouldn’t know that from reading much financial research. Untested market truisms, spurious correlations and ...