From vaccines to semiconductors, the scientific method made the U.S. a superpower. Abandoning it could reverse decades of progress.

A lot of ink has been spilled on the question of what will ultimately win: the scientific method, an approach to learning about the world by coming up with theories and testing those theories against ...

Everyone knows scientists are in the business of “discovering” things. But what exactly do they do? When I was growing up in ...

What Noubar Afeyan eloquently describes in his Jan. 29 op-ed, in defense of the scientific method, “Science at risk: Massachusetts must lead the fight for facts,” is what fascism looks like, plain and ...