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Physicist Kurt Gottfried was so alarmed by misuses of science in 1969, he said, that he helped create the Union of Concerned Scientists to place issues in the public spotlight and try to sway ...

In many realms of science today, “statistical wisdom” seems to be in short supply. Misuse of statistics in scientific research has contributed substantially to the widespread “reproducibility crisis” ...

The problems of the “precautionary principle” received a thorough airing from its critics at a December 12 forum sponsored by the George C. Marshall Institute, a Washington DC-based think tank ...