SubscriptionsCategory: Science
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Warning Over UK’s New Genetically-Altered Food Rules as Deadline on New Law Looms
Exclusive: Campaigners raise alarm as regulations allowing lab-altered crops in supermarkets from next year contain no limit on genetic modifications and ‘weak’ safeguards
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‘Trump’s War on Science Could Be Coming to the UK Soon’
There is a concerted global effort to undermine the very concept of evidence-based policy and scientific progress, argues Kit Yates
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The Upside Down: Seeing Is Predicting
John Mitchinson explores why perception is as much about what we know as what we see
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Elon Musk’s War Against Science, Evidence and Objective Truth
Scientists are abandoning Elon Musk’s Twitter amid a “mass extinction event” on the social media network, says Philipp Markolin.
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What Boris Johnson’s Testimony at the Covid Inquiry Reveals About his Inability to Engage with Scientific Evidence
Kit Yates argues that the former Prime Minister’s lack of scientific training was not the real problem
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‘The Lack of Transparency about COVID Science Will have Cost Lives During the Pandemic’
The public – and scientists – were not able to scrutinise the Government’s interpretation of the scientific evidence with which it was being supplied, argues Independent SAGE member Kit Yates
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The Covid Inquiry Demonstrates How Scientific Independence Matters
Dr Kit Yates examines the lessons emerging from the Covid Inquiry and why fear of pressure from politicians led to the creation of Independent SAGE
