Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public’s trust in science, old ...

No one scientific finding is final, yet students and scholars within the social sciences sometimes defer to scientific language to provide a sense of absolute certainty for their claims.

In this Essay, Professors Walker and Monahan examine the use of social science research data to prove contested facts in judicial proceedings. They argue that a court's decision to rely upon social ...

Both misinformation and science became salient issues during last year’s presidential election. Although the topic of fake news has elicited research attention in several domains (e.g., political ...

It’s a strange reality when more people recognize you from your videos on social media than from your peer-reviewed papers or “professional” work. During grad school, I could never have predicted that ...

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