As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...
This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Speaker 1: From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Free ...
Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old arguments are resurfacing that can sow confusion. As a statistician involved in ...
The idea of evidence-based medicine has been around since the 1980s, and the term was officially coined in the 1990s. It arose from the realization that medicine was highly dependent upon the ...
The Cass Review into gender identity services in the U.K. has been a topic of much contention. If you believe the supporters of the review, it was a solid document that took a uniquely scientific ...
In December, a federal judge dismissed 50,000 Zantac cases because the scientific evidence establishing cancer causation didn’t pass legal muster. In March, a California state judge reached the ...