Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

It is sometimes said that 90 percent of scientists who ever lived are alive today, so why is science not advancing by leaps and bounds? To call a thing ‘scientific’ or ‘scientifically proven’ is to ...

Mr. Schulman is the editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology & Society. He has written extensively about science reform. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of the National Institutes of ...