In February, the draconian California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016, Senate Bill 1161, was introduced by Democratic senators Ben Allen, Hannah-Beth Jackson and Mark Leno.

How many times do we hear that some scientific view is “only theory” or that it is “not proven”? The hidden implication is that if we have not “proven” the case, then we do not know anything for ...

Ten years ago last fall, Washington Post science writer Shankar Vedantam published an alarming scoop: The truth was useless. His story started with a flyer issued by the Centers for Disease Control ...

What is truth? In many cases there is no such thing, especially in the scientific realm. Science claims to be all about the exact truth, that which can be proven time after time. In fact the exact ...

You’re walking home on a busy day, exhausted and longing for a couch. As you round the corner, a blur whizzes past, and the roar of wind fills your ears. You stare curiously at the fading figure — a ...