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Designer Science: A History of IntelligentDesign in America. By C.W. Howell. NewYork University Press, 2025. Twenty years after the Kitzmiller…

YouTube screenshot of the monotonous block task from the Festinger and Carlsmith (1959) experiment. Psychological science—particularly social psychology—is suffering an…

In May 2025, a new gospel was preached on the internet. Albert Einstein supposedly had endorsed Buddhism in a 1954…

To what extent do social media algorithms, and YouTube’s specifically, contribute to user’s views becoming more extreme and even radicalizing?…

“Hell is empty; all the devils are here!” —Ferdinand in Shakespeare’s The Tempest I was six years and thirteen days old…

Misinformation is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The World Economic Forum has even identified disinformation (false…

In medical education we have a concept called longitudinal care – interns and residents need to follow a case through…

Changes in the structure of the media in recent years have expanded the range of opinions voiced in public, broadening…

He is called Rags. On the morning of May 5, 1980, a sixty-year-old man named Elias Joseph Barauskas collapsed at…

Among critics of “wokeness,” an increasingly heated debate has emerged about what should be done about university disciplines shaped by…