We know more about the surface of Mars than the floor of our own ocean and that is a genuinely strange set of priorities.

Nuclear is the safest energy we have per unit generated, and thirty years of being squeamish about it is a large part of why we are still burning gas.

Science journalism is mostly press releases with the caveats removed, and the caveats were the science.

Every popular fact you know about the brain is either wrong or from 1985. The ten percent thing, left brain right brain, learning styles, all of it, still being taught by people who mean well.

Half of what gets called "doing your own research" is reading until you find somebody who already agrees with you and then stopping.

Reading fiction makes you more empathetic, or at least better at imagining that other people have an interior life at all, which may be the same thing.

We should be spending vastly more on stopping the next pandemic, and we will not, because prevention has no photograph attached to it.

Most people who say they "believe in science" mean they trust institutions, which is a completely different thing and much easier to break.

The replication crisis never really ended, we just stopped finding it interesting.

Within fifty years ageing will be treated as a condition rather than a fact, and the argument will move to who can afford the treatment.

Antibiotic resistance is the slowest emergency we have and being slow is the entire problem. Nothing that takes thirty years to arrive ever gets a budget.

Weather forecasting got quietly, enormously better and nobody noticed because we only remember the times it was wrong.

Every few years somebody announces that we have cured a thing in mice, and nobody ever writes the follow-up where it did not work in people.

A genuine question for anyone who did science at school more recently than me: how much of what I was taught has quietly been revised? Nobody sends an update.

Statistics should be taught instead of trigonometry. I have needed one of them roughly weekly since school and the other precisely never.

Peer review does more harm than good at this point. Two anonymous strangers, no accountability, eighteen months, and a result nobody will ever try to reproduce.

Most of what psychology published before about 2015 does not replicate, and the field has been much more graceful about admitting it than any other would have been.