Tag Archives: The Guardian
“Who are we?”
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 could lock up funds for decades and end … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged CERN, Future Circular Collider, Large Hadron Collider, Nirmalya Kajuri, particle physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, The Guardian
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“Enough science.”
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 myself … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged arts, astrology, capitalism, democracy, empowerment, humanities, pseudoscience, The Guardian
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Dehumanising language during an outbreak
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 country. The advent of local transmission is an important event … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Amit Shah, Bharatiya Janata Party, COVID-19, dehumanisation, Eman Ahmed, epidemic, Harsh Vardhan, infection, infectious diseases, local transmission, private healthcare, public healthcare system, Saifee Hospital, SARS-CoV-2, science communication, science journalism, The Guardian, Washington Post, Wuhan coronavirus
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Cognitive flexibility and nationalism 2.0
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 here. I hadn’t read the study’s paper, published in the Proceedings of the … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm
Tagged behavioural psychology, Brexit, causation, cognitive flexibility, correlation, nationalism, neuroscience, Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, right-wing fundamentalism, The Guardian
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Auditing science stories: Two examples from the bottom rungs
The worst kinds of science stories are those that get facts wrong – and then those that report null results wrong. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Breakthrough Listen, helium-3, India TV, ISRO, Livemint, Paul Gilster, science journalism, science reporting, SETI, Sivathanu Pillai, The Guardian
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