We often talk about science as if it were a purely logical enterprise. Yet, the way we ask questions—and even the kind of questions we think matter—is shaped by something far older than the scientific ...

Scientists once thought illness was caused by “miasmas,” foul vapors that drifted through the air. For centuries, they were certain that the sun rotated around the Earth. Until the 1950s, they ...

During the peak of the Covid pandemic, the phrase “follow the science” became a popular refrain, used first by those advocating stronger infection control policies and later by those opposed to them.