Confused thoughts on embargoes

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO first detected. So I don’t know why the LIGO Collaboration, and Nature, bothered to embargo the announcement and, more importantly, the scientific papers of the LIGO-Virgo collaboration as well as those by the people at all these …

Auditing science stories: Two examples from the bottom rungs

The worst kinds of science stories are those that get facts wrong – and then those that report null results wrong.