News

The good and the bad: A profile of Canadian non-profit Bad...

By
Gem Newman
I care about science. I am fascinated by its attempt to systematically weigh evidence and weed out bias, ever striving to reach successively closer approximations of the truth. I also care about bad science,...
News

On the importance of vaccines: Not taking part puts us all...

By
Gem Newman
Vaccination is really important. That may seem to you like an unusually benign assertion – not because it’s false, but because it’s so trivially and obviously true that it shouldn’t need to be said. If...
News

Science opinion

By
Gem Newman
I graduated from the University of Manitoba Computer Science department in 2007. Despite what my degree says, I’m not a scientist. I think of myself more as a “science cheerleader.” Science needs cheerleaders, because...
Articles By:

Gem Newman