A new course offered this past spring, Sense & Sensibility & Science @UChicago: Scientific Thinking in a Democracy, highlights how scientific reasoning and tools can help both policy novices and ...

We’re all guilty of putting off that big decision because our brains can’t stop focusing on potential negative outcomes.

Scientific thinking is not limited to laboratories or researchers in white coats peering into microscopes. It is a way of reasoning that empowers everyday citizens to make informed, data-driven ...

You make hundreds (or more) decisions every day of your life. Of course, many of those decisions are relatively inconsequential. For example, which pair of shoes to wear, which shoe to put on first, ...

New research co-authored by Bayes Business School suggests that 'user' entrepreneurs who take a scientific approach to decision-making are more likely to find new uses and target markets for their ...

Founders know the mantra: make data-driven decisions. In recent years, the scientific approach to nurturing start-ups—developing hypotheses, collecting evidence that either supports or refutes them, ...

We are concerned about recent decisions by the U.S. secretary of health and human services that could undermine science-based decision-making about vaccines, including the dismissal of every member of ...

In its urge to say what Kennedy gets wrong, the public health and medical community is actively resisting something he gets ...