On a freezing night in January, several hundred people came to Boston’s Museum of Science for a town hall-style discussion cosponsored by Globe Ideas about how to strengthen science, democracy, and ...

• Only 57% of Americans say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, down from 73% before the pandemic. Only 45% think scientists are good communicators. • Focus groups before Brexit found ...

Concerns about living in a “post-truth” society – where evidence struggles to compete with misinformation, ideology and emotion – are now familiar. From vaccine hesitancy to climate change denial, ...