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  It’s Stephen Hawking’s birthday today and Google Doodles is celebrating one of history’s most influential minds with a video. The English cosmologist, author, and theoretical physicist’s theories on the origins and mechanics have given us a better understanding of our universe as we know it today. Sharing a quote by Hawking, Google Doodles tweeted, “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” Today’s video #GoogleDoodle honors one of history’s most influential minds—English theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking.” “Have you ever wondered what happens inside a black hole? #StephenHawking explored the answers to such big questions so humankind could better understand the universe,” added Google Doodles in another tweet. Born in 1942 on January 8, Hawking was fascinated by the workings of the Universe that earned him the nickname “Einstein.” The genius was diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease at the age...

  Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz is an epidemiologist and writer based in Sydney, Australia. His work covers chronic disease, the pandemic response, and more recently, error detection in science. In this op-ed, he discusses issues with research that has become increasingly apparent during the pandemic. There are no two ways about it: Science is flawed. We’re not talking about the philosophical leanings of science or the origins of white coats and linoleum-floored laboratories, but about the nuts and bolts of the process by which we determine whether things are true or false. In the decades before the pandemic, scientists spent endless hours wrestling with the painful fact that much of the knowledge base of science and medicine is reliant on research that is flawed, broken, or potentially never occurred at all. Science has a gap between its mechanics and outputs. The mechanics of science are fine. The machines always get bigger and more efficient. New tools are always d...