How Australia and NZ weighed the paraquat and Parkinson's evidence

On 24 July 2026, Syngenta announced it was withdrawing every paraquat product it sells in Australia and New Zealand. The reason given by the company's managing director for the region was not safety: ...

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Hallucination and Scientific Integrity at Both Ends of the Ocular

The word “hallucination” has gotten a lot of mixed rep in science. “Hallucinated” references are a tell of lousy research, and vibe-written papers flooding the journals. At the same time, the word wa...

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When a Chatbot Says Water Is More Dangerous Than Glyphosate

Half the world now uses generative AI assistants (Stanford HAI, 2026). Many of the queries ordinary people ask land on questions about science, including the contested-science topics this newsletter c...

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“Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business”

The editor told us that we were the first ones to ask for retraction.

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Let's stop doing irreversible things. Do we need a million satellites?

The FCC public comment period for two major satellite proposals is closing fast.

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Observing AI Entering Astrophysics:A Series Introduction and Request for Perspectives

Astronomy may be the natural science which AI rewires first. Its infrastructure is unusually open. Most data is public. The scientific record is mostly open through online preprint servers. Core softw...

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Unspoken Crisis: What Our Analysis of 700,000 U.S. Catholic Services Did Not Find

Climate change is no longer a distant “global issue.” It is local emergencies that carry the names of friends and neighbors. Heat waves, wildfires, flash floods, and other extreme weather events are b...

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Mars as a Red Herring in Climate Conversations

Mars has been a place for dreams for a long time. A god of war, a planet, the home of invaders in science fiction, more recently the scientific and space exploration frontier. The details change, but ...

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Lineages of Science in a Warming World: Who Owns Climate Knowledge?

Science is often spoken of as if it were a single institution: what science says, what science has shown. In practice, it is a tangle of labs, companies, contracts, grants, and norms that fall, broadl...

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Unspoken crisis: the absence of climate change communication in U.S. Catholic churches - Climatic Change

Climate change, as a topic, is virtually absent from discourse in the U.S. Catholic Masses. This is despite Pope Francis's strong emphasis on environmental stewardship in his two encyclicals Laudato S...

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The Impact of a Ghostwritten Paper on the Fate of Glyphosate

Opinion | A downsized EPA faces a deadline to review the herbicide’s safety without much of its in-house expertise.

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