This will be an unusual election, and there’s a danger that candidates and parties will see backing up claims with evidence as less of a concern. But we can all [...]
EU policy is made within the Brussels bubble, with Brussels-based think tanks and Brussels-based lobbyists. Even civil society organisations at EU level rarely speak to the people that they represent. [...]
Our Ask for Evidence lesson plan has been going down a storm but we want to make it even better. To do that, we need teachers to tell us what [...]
Come for a pint, stay for a discussion! Chris from the Ask for Evidence campaign will be talking at the Arts4Every1 Centre as part of the Wycombe Skeptics about how [...]
There’s a lot of contradictory advice in the UK cloth nappy world about washing your nappies. But one thing every source is agreed upon is that YOU MUSTN’T WASH YOUR [...]
A brand new podcast from Greg Foot supported by Ask for Evidence. [...]
“There’s so many cures for autism on-line, it’s a wonder anyone still has it” This wry observation from the father of a five-year-old newly diagnosed with autism in the BBC’s [...]
Every day in the run up to the election we’ll hear election candidates and political parties making claims about how they’ll change things for the better or how their policies [...]
Every day, we hear claims about what is good for our health, bad for the environment, how to improve education, cut crime, and treat disease. Some are based on reliable [...]
It’s been a little over a month since 10 fantastic early career researchers became our 2016 Ask for Evidence Ambassadors. They have been tasked with representing the campaign around the [...]
On 1st November 2016 one hundred people went to parliament. They listened to 15 stories from people across the country on why evidence matters to them, and heard responses from [...]
Come and join in for an evening of fun fact-checking, where we’ll be examining the evidence (or lack of) for foody fads and designer diets. We’ve put together a nutrition [...]
Scare stories about air pollution regularly come across journalists’ desks and we get questions about them. Are diesel cars a danger to our health or should we worry more about [...]
Ambassadors In October 2015, I and nine other early-career researchers were selected to become ambassadors for Sense About Science’s Ask for Evidence campaign. The ambassadors represent the campaign at talks around the [...]
When you ask for evidence, it can be satisfying (and almost flattering!) just to get a response. We’re often surprised at how quickly some companies, newspapers and even politicians reply [...]
