Science - Rationale Magazine

21 Mar

Lessons from social science forecasting during the pandemic

Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to ...

05 Mar

Science & Health

How amateur scientists are making important discoveries

05/03/2023
By Mark Lorch
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What images does science conjure up in your mind? You may well be visualising a laboratory, equations scrawled on a blackboard. Figures...

09 Feb

Science & Health

The gaping problem at the heart of scientific research

Researchers can't progress their work without access to very expensive scientific journals. The rebellion against the publishers and th...

29 Jan

Science & Health

Success without substance

29/01/2023
By Adrian Barnett
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New Zealander Nigel Richards has won the French Scrabble championship twice. What’s more remarkable than double wins is that Nigel d...

05 Jan

Feature series

Expert knowledge and scientific thinking under siege

05/01/2023
By Paul Monk
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This article is part of our ‘From the vault’ series of summer reading. It was originally published in the Winter 2017 edition of Austra...

28 Nov

Science & Health

Science experiments at school can be fun, inspiring and safe

29/11/2022
By Nathan Kilah
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To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration ...

25 Sep

Philosophy & Psychology

Why we should trust science

25/09/2022
By John Wright
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Many of us accept science is a reliable guide to what we ought to believe – but not all of us do. Mistrust of science has led to sce...

02 Apr

Science & Health

Scientists, working together, can prevent future pandemics

22/07/2022
By Grace Wangge
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Costly delays in reporting and responding helped COVID-19 spread. But the failures that saw it become a pandemic were of a different ki...

20 Mar

Philosophy & Psychology

Why we trust experts – even when they admit they don’t know the answer

22/07/2022
By Erik Gustafsson
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We constantly make decisions about who to trust. Much of the time we’re bombarded with massive amounts of information on all sorts o...

13 Mar

Science & Health

Future-proofing research

The founding father of Federation Henry Parkes declared in 1890 that Australia should “embrace the power that is conferred by br...

15 Feb

Science & Health

Women in science still jumping hurdles

23/07/2022
By Michelle Rank
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“Can I see a future with gender equity for women and girls in science?” If you had asked me 15 years ago, I would have said no. But,...

16 Jan

Feature series

A reflection on Karl Popper’s insights into the origins of scientific method and the pre-Socratics

07/09/2022
By Paul Monk
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If I was asked to teach an undergraduate course on Rationality 101, I would begin by introducing the students to the work of Karl Poppe...

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