The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our newsletters to have stories delivered to your inbox. Consider becoming a member to support our nonprofit journalism. In September 2019 ...
As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...
Think back to what you still remember from science class. No, there’s no need to strain your brain recalling the particulars of cellular mitosis or the periodic table. Instead, consider the idea that ...
In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that permanently changed the way we see the world. This week, the spotlight is on the scientific method: As the world scrambles to deal with ...
As COVID-19 claimed victims at the start of the pandemic, scientific models made headlines. We needed such models to make informed decisions. But how can we tell whether they can be trusted? The ...
In Part 1 of this series, I discussed the illusion of knowledge in the context of COVID-19 and explained how much of what we think we know is actually belief, taken as truth, because it came from a ...