
The Denialist Playbook
On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern
Sean B. Carroll is Distinguished University Professor of Biology at the University of Maryland and vice president for science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His latest book is A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance the Making of the Planet Life (Princeton University Press).
On vaccines, evolution, and more, rejection of science has followed a familiar pattern
The massive marine mammal's numbers have increased by 400 percent in the past quarter-century—and it's not the only such success story
As we celebrate Darwin’s birthday on February 12, there is some positive news about Americans’ views
Switches within DNA that govern when and where genes are turned on enable genomes to generate the great diversity of animal forms from very similar sets of genes
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