Science - Rationale Magazine

28 Nov

To a young mind, science can be magical. Perhaps you remember a visually striking or seemingly inexplicable scientific demonstration fr...

25 Sep

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

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

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

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

15 Feb

“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

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...

14 Jul

Widespread scientific literacy – in schools and the wider community – is an essential part of any action plan to mitigate climate chang...

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