Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The extraordinary case of academic fraudster Diederick Stapel followed the typical narrative of a scientific scandal. A ...

Elon Musk’s medical-device startup Neuralink, whose brain-computer interface for patients with paralysis was recently touted as being on the verge of beginning human trials, has come under federal ...

We love a good joke. And if it’s nerdy, too? Well, that’s just the cherry on top, isn’t it? Content that makes you think a bit to get a laugh has a lot of fans online. Not only is it witty but it also ...

Sound science requires animal subjects to be physically, physiologically, and behaviorally unharmed. Accordingly, publication of methods that contravenes animal welfare principles risks perpetuating ...

A study trumpeting the value of applying rigorous standards to scientific research was retracted, in part because the authors didn’t follow their own advice. In the sprawling project, scientists in ...

The Core is a poorly made sci-fi disaster film with an absurd plot, amateurish direction, and terrible dialogue. The movie's scientific inaccuracies are numerous and laughable, from the misuse of ...

In his 1996 book, The Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell sketched out a pattern that many of the "crusading movements" of the 20th century have followed. First, they identify a "great ...

Most people associate bad habits with the kind of activities that wind up on a list of New Year's resolutions—eating and drinking too much, spending too much time on the smartphone and avoiding the ...