This past weekend we were in Cambridge, MA, at a meeting of the advisory committee for Henry Louis Gates, Jr's next PBS series on ancest...

“Holly, it’s fossil time!” My doctoral adviser, let’s call him Sid, made an appointment with a man from Philipsburg—which is about a 30-mi...

The leading medical journal The Lancet has decided to withdraw a 1998 paper that linked autism to a vaccine commonly given to young childre...

There's a sobering, if not scary, story in the Feb 3 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine . British and Belgian physicians hav...

We blogged about the so-called 'climategate' scandal or incident a while ago, in the context of the way all people, scientists incl...

Type 2 diabetes Is this a trend? We've seen two recent papers that say that non-genetic factors are better predictors of a trait than ...

Our culture, and certainly our science culture, firmly believes in the concept of causation that is directed in time order. Only some rathe...