In late 2017, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) adopted a “Statement on Scientific Freedom & Responsibility”: Scientific freedom and scientific responsibility are ...

This week marks the three year anniversary of the Theory of Knowledge Blog. I have made almost 100 posts on a wide variety of different topics and have arranged them below around major themes. (The ...

Few industries have felt the disruptive effects of artificial intelligence more than higher education. A report from the ...

Many of the challenges we address here were evident to the pioneers of medical decision analysis of the 1950s 7 and to scholars in subsequent decades 8-11 who conducted careful and creative studies of ...

As people increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas of life to either save time or improve performance, ...

Anupam B. Jena is a physician and economist at Harvard Medical School, co-author of Random Acts of Medicine: The Hidden Forces That Sway Doctors, Impact Patients, and Shape Our Health, and host of the ...

We are a society in desperate need of healing; these days, we cannot even find agreement in diagnosis. Consider the issue of vaccination, which raises the specter of science in conflict with ...