The environmental humanities scholar Rob Nixon has a powerful phrase that I find useful for our times: slow violence. As Nixon explains in his book by the same name, “I mean a violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across timeContinue readingWe Need Data and So Much More

Welcome to the first issue of Never Just Science! When I sketched out a plan for writing this newsletter, I thought I’d likely start with some obvious topics: What is scientism? Or maybe Richard Dawkins’s racist tirades? Or, what’s with the fly in the logo? I’m pretty sure we’ll getContinue readingHow Not to Spot an Epidemic