Imagine finding out your friends hosted a dinner party and didn’t invite you, or that you were passed over for a job you were excited about. These moments hurt, and people often describe rejection in the language of physical pain[1].
While rejection can be emotionally painful, it can also teach us something.
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The first time Donald Trump was president, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a regulation known as the “science transparency[1]” rule. The administration liked to call it the “secret science” rule[2].
“Transparency” sounds positive, but this rule instead prevented the EPA from using some of the best...
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Many people have been there.
The dinner party is going well until someone decides to introduce a controversial topic. In today’s world, that could be anything from vaccines to government budget cuts to immigration policy. Conversation starts to get heated. Finally, someone announces with great authority that a scientific study supports their...