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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.

People confuse science the noun with science the verb

“Why is Facebook free? Why are credit cards less than free? Why do singles bars sometimes have women drink free nights but never men drink free nights?

We all hoped it wasn't going to happen, although we secretly knew it probably would. Earlier this week, long-time Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek lost his battle with pancreatic cancer.

“While it wasn’t the first instance of voting by mail in America — that came ahead of the War of 1812 but was limited to Pennsylvania, and happened a few years later in New Jersey as well — the Civil War marked the advent of the righ

       

"Statistics, as a lens through which scientists investigate real-world questions, has always been smudged by the fingerprints of the people holding the lens.

The U.S. presidential election just came to a close, but the postmortem is just beginning. Both candidates will wonder why they didn't perform better, and pollsters will wonder the same.