Science is often held as the gold standard of truth—a methodical, rigorous pursuit of knowledge that guides everything from medicine to policymaking. But what if the very system designed to uncover objective reality is itself compromised? Stuart Ritchie’s book, Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth, dives deep into…

Modern physics is often painted as a battleground, a clash of competing theories vying for dominance. Whether it’s the question of whether the universe is finite or infinite, or whether space itself is continuous or discrete, there’s an underlying sense that only one answer can win. But does this competitive approach serve the pursuit of…