From Spontaneous Generations, a special issue on Science and Public Controversy. The statistical error that just keeps on coming: The same statistical errors — namely, ignoring the "difference in differences" — are appearing throughout the most prestigious journals in neuroscience. Carlo Rovelli on science as perpetual revolution, from its earliest beginnings to quantum gravity. Steven Weinberg on symmetry, a "key to Nature’s secrets". The first chapter from Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science by Michael Nielsen. The dangers of cherry-picking evidence: It's one thing to produce a bias-free experiment — but the second, crucial stage is to synthesise the evidence fairly. How science can become more creepy: It turns out the problem with science is that there aren’t enough theories involving prehistoric narcissistic psychopathic art mollusks. Why scientific progress sometimes goes boink: An excerpt from Lisa Randall's Knocking on Heaven’s Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World (and more and more and more). The new Einsteins will be scientists who share: From cancer to cosmology, researchers could race ahead by working together — online and in the open. With his new book The Magic of Reality, Richard Dawkins wants to introduce children to the wonders of science. What eight years of writing the Bad Science column has taught Ben Goldacre.
