The politicization of science is undermining the scientific method itself, the co-founder of the biotech firm Moderna warned.

In a new letter, Noubar Afeyan, Ph.D., co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, warns that these actions risk undermining the foundations of science itself to the ultimate detriment of ...

In his annual letter, Flagship Pioneering’s Noubar Afeyan lays out a choice between near-term “human-made miracles” and a ...

As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: ...

What is the “Scientific method”? Saturday’s March for Science calls for “robustly funded” science and “political leaders and policy makers to enact evidence based policies in the public interest.” But ...

The root cause of medical startup failure is not a lack of resources or regulatory complexity, but how founders, boards and ...

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

T he last two decades have not been kind to science studies. Already bruised and battered by the “science wars” of the 1990s, by the 2000s sociologists of science — who had long argued that science ...

Under house arrest in Egypt, one mathematician transformed how we examine the world. 500 years before the Scientific Revolution, the mathematician Al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham spent hours in a dark room ...