Claims that the “the science isn’t settled” with regard to climate change are symptomatic of a large body of ignorance about how science works. So what is the scientific method, and why do so many ...

IN the few remarks which I communicated to this journal (vol. xxvii. p. 554) under the above heading, I protested against the deductive method used in a purely literary manner as a mischievous way of ...

At first glance, few people would think of Walter Lippmann as a great detective. Courteous, well-read, softspoken, with a vocabulary greater than Sherlock Holmes’s (and far more normal habits), he ...