So much paranoia has been built up in the US about the fictional danger of stealing children in public, that people who try to help a child are in real danger. A man found a lost child and asked people nearby if they could help find her parents; when her father showed up, he insisted the man was a kidnaper and beat him up.

The father may be sued for this, but shouldn't he be prosecuted for this?

As we fill up the seas with plastic bottles, we need to measures to impose recycling.

Scientists need to do a better job of checking papers for bad statistics before they are published.

Paywalled journals often mean that the only version we the public can see is a preprint, which will never receive whatever corrections reviewers may suggest.

An investigation into discrepancies of climate models illustrates the difference between skepticism and denialism.

Skepticism helps science progress. Denialism tries to get rid of science.

George Monbiot: investigate possible campaign funding illegalities in the UK's referendum on leaving the EU, and annul the result if there were substantial illegalities.