There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American This is the third and final installment of my ...

Scientific practice has long been guided by an ideal of objectivity, yet the influence of values—both epistemic and non-epistemic—pervades every stage of research. Epistemic values, such as accuracy, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In trying to figure out what ethics ought to ...

“If the substance of a thing is made of its relations with other things, a way to show that substance is to prove that these relations resist, that they are recalcitrant.” Let’s be honest: Nobody ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...