The real scientific fact is that MSG is safe to consume in moderate amounts. Excessive consumption, like with most processed foods, can cause headaches and nausea, but it is not inherently dangerous.

While dystopian futures are great science fiction, scientific facts actually support optimism. Imagining worst-case scenarios is human nature; people swap scary stories around campfires that ...

Beliefs vs. facts All the experiments were variations on a basic procedure. Participants were given headlines about topics like climate change that differed in terms of their wording. Some of them ...

Historically, biological reality included the existence of two immutable sexes, the humanity of a late-term fetus, and that childbirth was exclusive to one sex.

For example, a 2023 bill from Montana prohibits science instruction on “subject matter that is not scientific fact.” The bill devalues scientific theories as hunches or unproven assumptions.

Sidebar: Just Printing Results Doesn't Validate Them Sidebar: Discouraging Hypotheses Slows Progress What is a scientific fact? How are such facts established? Who are the judges, the referees, the ...

The Northwestern University study found partisan use of scientific data in policymaking has increased in the past 25 years ...

But scientific facts are determined by the scientific method, logic and evidence, all presented in peer-reviewed publications that require reproducible results.