Independent Perspective: We are in trouble without science

Independent Perspective: We are in trouble without science

None of our founders were a more passionate advocate for public education than Thomas Jefferson. He quite correctly recognized that democracy (including the new democratic republic he had just been instrumental in creating) cannot survive an ignorant citizenry. In his…

The politicization of research and the attraction of easy certainties endanger one of the most beautiful products of the human mind.

How Do We ‘Trust the Science’ in an Age of Misinformation?

The headline on the cover of the March 2015 edition of National Geographic blares: “The War on Science,” with a list of subtitles arguing against everything from evolution and the moon landing to climate change and vaccinations.

The second day of the planetary movement Stand up for science saw tens of thousands of people march around the world. In the Parisian procession, which had more than 900 people according to the Paris police prefecture, concerns are less focused on Donald Trump than on budget cuts in the... Cet article Nearly a thousand people in Paris to defend science est apparu en premier sur Natura Sciences.