A new type of ‘vaccine scepticism’ has been uncovered by researchers at Lancaster University, who examined a nine-million-word corpus of tweets looking at vaccine comparisons and evaluations. They ...

Over the past decade, a new form of scepticism about human activities in space has emerged. It seems to be based exclusively in the western world, and centred around the idea that increasingly ...

Patrick D. Nunn receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Natural Environment Research Council (UK) and the British Academy (UK) Rachael Sharman does not work for, consult, own shares ...

Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

In your leader article, you write that from “vaccine sceptics at the heart of the US government to the continued global paralysis when it comes to climate action, science has been under siege in 2025” ...