Science literacy articles on research, climate, and health.
5 articles
Air quality indices, indoor smoke, antibiotic resistance, the microbiome and biodiversity loss are all environmental health stories. This guide explains how the evidence behind them is produced and where it runs out.
From the physics of the greenhouse effect to ice cores, ocean chemistry, tipping points and the difference between adaptation and mitigation, a grounded tour of how climate science reaches its conclusions.
Significance, confidence intervals, relative risk and screening accuracy are routinely misreported. A practical guide to the handful of statistical ideas that decide whether a health headline means anything.
Randomised trials, cohorts, case-control studies and systematic reviews each answer different questions with different certainty. Knowing which design produced a finding tells you most of what you need.
