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Sinan Aral is the Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Hype Machine about how social media disrupts our world. They claimed that a study my colleagues Deb Roy…

Now that we've apparently elected Nate Silver the President of Science, this is some predictable grumbling about whether he's been overhyped.

25 years of gripping, amazing, and sometimes just plain “odd” storytelling, in audio and print, chosen by Slate Plus Members and Slatesters alike.

Remember when we were assured that the Wuhan Institute of Virology "lab leak" theory for the origin of COVID-19 was "conspiratorial nonsense" and that we should "believe scientists" like Peter

Remember when we were assured that the Wuhan Institute of Virology "lab leak" theory for the origin of COVID-19 was "conspiratorial nonsense" and that we should "believe scientists" like Peter

We'd actually be less polarized and more unified if a lot more of us were professional skeptics.

A freak accident in May 2020 changed the Sulzer family's life irrevocably. Just a week before Liviana "Livie" Sulzer's 4th birthday, a branch broke from a tree...

Reuters reports that AT&T pitched the idea for the conservative network and provided ‘tens of millions of dollars in revenue.’ AT&T is pushing back.

There’s renewed attention to speculations that the coronavirus outbreak came from a lab accident, and focus on how the pandemic started. We have other problems to worry about to end this pandemic and prepare for the next.

It’s not in the way you think.