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"Who are we?"

Mar 29, 2025 2 min read

From '‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider', The Guardian, March 29, 2025: However, if the FCC were given the go-ahead, it co…

"Enough science."

Dec 15, 2020 2 min read

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Edit, 6.04 pm, December 15, 2020: A reader pointed out to me that The Guardian may in fact have been joking, and it has been known to be flippant on occasion. If this is really the case, I pronounce m…

Dehumanising language during an outbreak

Mar 5, 2020 5 min read

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It appears the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has begun local transmission in India, i.e. infecting more people within the country instead of each new patient having recently travelled to an already affected…

Cognitive flexibility and nationalism 2.0

Apr 30, 2018 4 min read

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Remember that paper about cognitive flexibility and nationalism? The one that said people who are more nationalistic in their politics tend to have lower cognitive flexibility? I’d blogged about it he…

Auditing science stories: Two examples from the bottom rungs

Apr 21, 2017 2 min read

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The worst kinds of science stories are those that get facts wrong – and then those that report null results wrong.…