Imagine you are sitting in a nine-hour meeting and your vote will help decide if a new cancer screening test gets approved in your country. The test under consideration breaks the mould: from a...
There is a superstition that has seeped into many aspects of our world in ways most of us are not aware of. It bends the greatest banks to its idiosyncrasies. It hollows out towering buildings,...
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the name of a drug most people had never heard of before was suddenly on everyone’s lips. An off-patent antiparasitic blessed by the World Health...
You’re scrolling through your Facebook feed when you encounter a link to a video that promises to reveal the true cause of something that’s been ailing you for years. You’ve been to the doctor but...
Science is elastic. Its findings can be stretched to sell useless gadgets and to sow mistrust. Often, this distortion of the truth is done outside of academia by merchants of doubt, spiritual...
The woman talking into the expensive microphone says she didn’t want to do the “regular stuff,” so she met a doctor whose belief system was “outside the box.”
