Free speech at the outer limits

On January 12, Peter W. Wood, president of an American organisation called the National Association of Scholars (NAS), wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against attempts by one individual to prevent NAS from organising a conference on science’s reproducibility crisis. As it turns out, the individual – Leonid Teytelman – has been fighting …

Communication, journalism and bullshit

Science can often be complicated to deal with and benefit from a journalist’s gaze – but it must be accompanied, if not preceded, by science communication.