Freelance science writer. My first book, "The AI Does Not Hate You: The Rationalists and Their Quest to Save the World", is out in 2019.
It is tempting to describe the government’s approach to cannabis as a spectacular failure. But that would be untrue: the government’s approach cannot fail, because the government has no approach. It has no goals, it has no aims, it has no policies.
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A recent scientific trial has led to acrimonious debates over chronic fatigue syndrome, aka ME, and boosted interest in a secretive therapy that some call a “cult” and others call a “miracle”.
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After 20 years in space, some amazing science, and some unbelievable images, the Cassini-Huygens mission finally came to an end. We asked two of the scientists who worked on it what the mission meant to them.
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Analysis by BuzzFeed News found that more than half of the most-shared scientific stories about autism published in the last five years promote unevidenced or disproven treatments, or purported causes.
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The results of too many scientific studies aren’t standing up to scrutiny. Here’s how a group of scientists think they can (partly) change that.
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Andrew Haigh, appointed UKIP’s national organiser for Wales in 2015, has a website selling “Aerobic Oxygen” for consumption – but tests reveal it to be a powerful chemical similar to oven cleaner.
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When photos of suffering children are splashed across my timeline, I see my own son reflected in them. But that doesn’t mean I deserve more say in how, and whether, those photos are shared.
New research is revealing cancer to be a complex, evolving disease – but scientists are beginning to cautiously talk about “curing” some instances.
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The much-loved author of the Discworld series has died aged 66. In this interview from 2013, he showed that he didn’t shy away from life’s ‘depressing stuff’.
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Split infinitives make them shudder and they’d never end a sentence with a preposition. But linguist Geoffrey Pullum has a message for all grammar pedants: you’re wrong.
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