There are many possible reasons for the public’s declining trust in journalism — it’s falling for pretty much everyone — but it’s plausible that one of them is the difference in that way journalists ...

Cultural ideas are inextricably entwined with the people who do science, the questions they ask, the assumptions they hold and the conclusions they land on. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Science journalists take sides by prioritizing truth over falsehood in reporting. Discover the crucial role of objectivity in journalism. Reporters are messengers – their job is to tell, as accurately ...

Prologue: objectivity shock -- I. Epistemologies of the eye: Blind sight -- Collective empiricism -- Objectivity is new -- Histories of the scientific self -- Epistemic virtues -- The argument -- ...

Science sits on a pedestal of purity - and we put it there. But there are some uncomfortable truths about its handling of alternative facts and who gets to say what, says DW's Zulfikar Abbany. First, ...

Science, as a process of discovering knowledge, is approximately 450 years old (Wootton, 2015) and is one of the best ways we can understand how the world works. It also allows scientists to challenge ...

Most academic disciplines belonging to broad category of social sciences are intrinsically interpretative. This is because any claimed addition/contribution to ‘knowledge’ in any branch of social ...

The COVID-19 pandemic seems to take every public problem—vast social inequality, political polarization, the spread of conspiracy theories—and magnify it. Among these problems is the public’s growing ...