Health headlines love percentages. Here is how to turn a 20% lower risk into real people, using a big 2023 heart trial and a 1995 pill scare, with three plain questions you can ask about any risk.

A journal openly invited clinical trials that missed their main goal. That is welcome, but only a well designed "no" tells anyone something useful.

A 2022 experiment sent one finance paper to hundreds of reviewers under a Nobel laureate's name, a junior researcher's name, or no name. The name changed the verdict.

A very good test can still be wrong most of the times it says "positive." The reason is simple arithmetic about how rare a disease is.

The 2023 Hindawi retractions showed how paper mills exploit special issues. Better detection helps, but mills keep finding customers because publication counts are what get rewarded.

Learn how to read scientific papers effectively. This guide breaks down key sections and offers strategies for understanding complex research.

In 2023 Crossref opened up the Retraction Watch database, creating what it called the largest open database of retractions. A retraction only works if the warning follows the paper to where people read and cite it.

A good talk helps the audience understand the question, follow the evidence and remember why it matters. Research on slides and plain language shows which habits help most, and where the evidence runs thin.

Some journals charge scientists to publish but skip the expert checks they promise. Here is how they operate, how big the problem is, and how to tell a trusted journal from a fake one.

Misinformation and disinformation threaten science. Learn the difference and how to fight back for truth and reliable knowledge.

A claim is scientific when a fair test could prove it wrong and its supporters accept the result. This post looks at how astrology and homeopathy did when they were tested, gives a short checklist, and explains where the line gets blurry.

Science gets things wrong. What makes it different is that it has ways to find its own mistakes. Here is how that works, with real cases, and where it still falls short.