Truth has been buried alive under a mountain of subjective judgments: Even science, as we have seen, now yields to myth. A subjectivized society requires a massive amount of control.

Sofia Caetano Avritzer is the 2025 AAAS Mass Media Fellow with Science News. She has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from The Rockefeller University, where she studied how fruit flies move their eyes and ...

Bending Science To “Trump Truth” Donald Trump often declares himself a “very stable genius,” a suspicious claim from someone who is an egomaniac imposing his biases into the realm of ...

Science: Truth Wanted. 2 minute read. TIME. January 10, 1944 12:00 AM GMT-4 “The lie detector,” said Mrs. Edna Hancock, “lied.” The veracity of lie detectors was headed for trial last week ...

Science: Truth About Knossos? 4 minute read. TIME. July 18, 1960 12:00 AM GMT-4. O ne of the most fascinating chapters of ancient history tells about the fabled island of Crete, whose rulers were ...