In category: Science and Data

By Sabina Leonelli The pandemic has thrown questions around both scientific and public trust into the spotlight. On the one hand, attempts to manipulate public trust in government have often been accompanied by very serious lapses in such trust (e.g. the Cummings scandal in the UK, Trump’s invitation to drink bleach). On the other hand, […]

By Angela Cassidy There are many parallels between the UK’s response to the arrival of COVID-19 in recent months and its much longer policy history of grappling with bovine tuberculosis. In particular, both situations expose a critical problem underlying many controversies drawing in science, policy and wider publics—the idea of “The Big Book of Science.” […]

By Angela Cassidy The past decade has seen an explosion in the availability and uptake of new technologies enabling the rapid testing, diagnosis and detection of organisms in and beyond the laboratory. At times taking the form of relatively cheap, easily operated and highly transportable devices, these technologies draw on wider developments across the biomedical […]