New York’s Medical Aid in Dying is often framed as compassion guided by medical expertise. But is the legislation prescribing ...

It’s pretty obvious at this point that the Trump administration is waging a full-scale assault on US science. It has proposed budgets that would be catastrophic, stopped the flow of research funds to ...

There is no author summary for this book yet. Authors can add summaries to their books on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience. Chapter 3 shows important commonalities ...

My entire life I never bought into religion or the existence of god. I participated in several religions and discounted all of them. I considered myself spiritual but believed there was no creator.

My entire life I never bought into religion or the existence of god. I participated in several religions and discounted all of them. I considered myself spiritual but believed there was no creator.

We explain the administration’s cuts to research. By Alan Burdick I’m an editor and occasional reporter of health and science news. Late yesterday, Sethuraman Panchanathan, whom President Trump hired ...

Science is amazing and our civilization has benefited enormously from the advances science has made. Its intellectual authority is virtually unparalleled in the modern academy. But, when ...

The exponential growth in scientific knowledge, and the myriad technological innovations it has spawned over the past two centuries, has given rise to the expectation that scientific progress will ...

Scientism is the view that the only real knowledge that human beings possess is scientific knowledge, that is, knowledge acquired through a method that is empiriometric. The empiriometric sciences ...

The problem with scientism is that it is either self-defeating or trivially true. F.A. Hayek helps us to see why. Scientism is the view that all real knowledge is scientific knowledge – that there is ...