Many policies -- from medicine to terrorism -- depend on how the general public accepts and understands scientific evidence. People view different branches of sciences as having different amounts of ...

Let me start with a great analogy of experimental uncertainty. This is a diagram of the allegory of the cave from Plato. The basic idea of the cave is that people are in a cave (duh) looking at ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There’s a new index in town. If you read a lot of sell-side research or central bank publications, you might ...