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The ACSH mission statement is very clear: "To publicly support evidence-based science and medicine and to debunk junk science and exaggerated health scares." Basically, we were founded in 1978 to combat misinformation, long before the advent of "f

Every year the British Medical Journal publishes an issue containing articles, with tongue firmly planted in cheek.

As I drove north, dark-gray haar stretched up, tumbled over, and rolled around: frozen wisps and bulges above broccoli-colored hills.  The fog was renewed by the cold water of the Firth of Tay and sustained by windless stillness.&nbs

Remember before COVID-19 when our concern was those other little pathogens, microbes. Despite all the attention on COVID-19 and vaccines, antibiotic resistance remains a problem.

There are two pandemics currently afflicting us. COVID-19, of course, and the "infodemic" – otherwise known as a tsunami of information and misinformation.

As a boomer of a certain age, my formative years involved protests, seen, or experienced first-hand. And the last few months have seen a range of protests in American cities.

The dilemma of what to give becomes more difficult, especially for family and friends I have gifted over the years.

Truthfully, writing about science and health often involves more reading than writing. With the infodemic on the COVID-19 pandemic underway now for ten months, there are an enormous number of articles to sift through.

“Nonetheless, for all the dangers this populism poses, it should make us consider why there has been such a loss of trust in science and scientific authority.

Nate Silver is a statistician and self-appointed electoral guru.