Scientific ignorance

"Researchers must be willing not only to be attentive to the questions and concerns raised by the public and not be satisfied with trying to repel them, but also to respond to them - even if this means they have to shelve technology that they believe may change the world." Illustration: US Air Force photo by Richard Eldridge.

Scientists are trying new ways to convince a skeptical public

Sir Isaac Newton

Forum - what science wants to discover

King Shaul and the Witch from a generation. Louis Maximilian Beavis, 1796. On display at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

A country haunted by demons L3: Dear Baba or the defeat of reason

Pigs

The flu epidemic - was or was not