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The Practice of Science

On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Lives of Scientists •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • Spencer A. Klavan

You Are Not an Ape-Brained Meat Sack

In quantum mechanics, a physics that cares

Spencer A. Klavan

Essay | Spring 2025

Spring 2025

  • M. Anthony Mills

How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

For years, scientists kept the debate about risky virus research among themselves. Then Covid happened. As President Trump prepares to crack down on virology research, the expert community must face up to its own failures.

M. Anthony Mills

Review | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Geoff Shullenberger

Turn on, Tune in, Write Code

How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture

Geoff Shullenberger

Essay | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Masking Debate We Didn’t Have

The Covid establishment saw masking policies as purely scientific. Now critics are making the same mistake.

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Joseph Joyce

The Demise of the Garage Inventor

How Hollywood forgot the tinkering dad

Joseph Joyce

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?

Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck

M. Anthony Mills

Review | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • David Kordahl

The Big Whimper

Why cosmology may not end with a bang

David Kordahl

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Sam Kahn

Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy

One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation

Sam Kahn

Interview | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Harry Collins
  • M. Anthony Mills

Science as Craftwork with Integrity

The study of expertise itself helps us get past a “magic” view of science — and strengthen it against populist critiques.

Harry Collins and M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

Manufacturing Consensus

Science needs conformity — but not the kind it has right now.

M. Anthony Mills

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