Harry Collins: science is a pillar of democracy
Responses to the coronavirus touch on the deepest issues of the kind of society we want and need, says distinguished research professor
Responses to the coronavirus touch on the deepest issues of the kind of society we want and need, says distinguished research professor
The principles of scepticism and open-mindedness are vital in a post-truth world, an expert on experts tells Matthew Reisz
Athene Donald agrees that scientists, although not infallible, do know better about some things
Jason Watkins stars in show exploring human costs and political ramifications of hacking of emails from University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in 2009
Harry Collins takes issue with an outdated account of the relations between science and society
Marking down fellowship applicants for being unwilling to move institutions can be deeply unfair, say Trisha Greenhalgh and Ed Hawkins
The feature on Harry Collins (“Authoritative testimony”, 9 March) says: “Building on the role of government scientific advisers, Collins and [Robert] Evans propose a detailed set of mechanisms for...
Book of the week: the values of research must be preserved despite political and economic pressure, says Harry Collins
Free market ideology has contributed to ‘vaccine hesitancy’, endangering us all, says Harry Collins
Matthew Reisz considers gravitational waves, scientific authority and sexual differences
We write as senior academics to express our concern about the proposal from Universities UK to end guaranteed pension payments in the Universities Superannuation Scheme (“UUK reforms ‘will cut USS...
My sympathy goes out to Steven Cotgrove about whom Harry Collins reminisces,"we beat him up mercilessly". Surely it ought to be possible to engage in critical debate without resorting to such a...
From giving up Bremoaning and plastic cutlery, to publishing 10 papers in one year and sketchnoting, scholars share their goals for 2017
In his review of Michael Ruse's The Evolution-Creation Struggle , Harry Collins makes a number of incisive points (Books, December 9). But he takes Richard Dawkins to task for his excessive "...