Tom Chivers

Tom Chivers is a science writer. His second book, How to Read Numbers, is out now.

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Social media broadens our opinions? Sorry, don’t believe it A new report aims to debunk the idea of social media 'filter bubbles'

29 Jan 2020

It’s time for the doom-mongers to clock off

27 Jan 2020

China’s coronavirus will not be the next Black Death The swift response shows the world has learned from its past failures

22 Jan 2020

Why the drugs don’t work

21 Jan 2020

How racist are you?

15 Jan 2020

Could the Cummings nerd army fix broken Britain?

07 Jan 2020

Can patriotism be progressive? A seemingly innocuous statement has triggered a heated debate on the Left

02 Jan 2020

So did ‘idiot voters’ get it wrong?

30 Dec 2019

Is the ‘epidemic of loneliness’ fake news?

27 Dec 2019

The dangers of festive over-indulgence

26 Dec 2019

Does Dominic Cummings get survivorship bias? The advisor's recommended reading to Downing Street aides may be misguided

19 Dec 2019

Why Corbynistas can never admit they’re wrong

17 Dec 2019

No, the rain probably won’t affect voter turnout The much-quoted idea that bad weather is good or bad for one party is likely nonsense

12 Dec 2019

Of course biological sex exists

10 Dec 2019

Why it’s so easy to invent conspiracy theories

03 Dec 2019

Do manifestos make a difference?

26 Nov 2019

Labour’s billionaire bashing will backfire

19 Nov 2019

Let loose the lynx!

14 Nov 2019

Turning off the lights won’t save the planet

06 Nov 2019

Why won’t Jordan Peterson heed his own advice?

29 Oct 2019

Do Leave voters really think ‘violence is a price worth paying’? The media is constantly saying things about how Brexit extremism and violence and it usually turns out to be overstated

25 Oct 2019

Should we worry about footballers heading the ball?

23 Oct 2019

Is Boris Johnson trying to rig the election?

15 Oct 2019

Will Brexit leave us dining on rat poo?

09 Oct 2019

Should we trust AI to hire and fire?

03 Oct 2019

My technology lesson for Boris Let's take a closer look at some of those science projects the prime minister mentioned in his speech...

02 Oct 2019

Why climate change isn’t the end of the world

25 Sep 2019

Statistically, you shouldn’t believe the news

19 Sep 2019

Stop hating on vaping

13 Sep 2019

Don’t blame Boris for hate crime

03 Sep 2019

Dominic Cummings is no chicken

30 Aug 2019

Was it The Sun wot won Brexit?

28 Aug 2019

Are ‘gateway’ drugs a fiction?

16 Aug 2019

The myth of the ‘growth mindset’

07 Aug 2019

Who are you calling a snowflake?

31 Jul 2019

Who’s afraid of the feminists?

17 Jul 2019

Do humans have a future?

10 Jul 2019

How unstable are our politicians?

04 Jul 2019

Our toxic pollution paranoia

27 Jun 2019

What’s wellbeing worth?

13 Jun 2019

No, you can’t pray the gay away

04 Jun 2019

Do men want sex more than women?

24 May 2019

Government’s dirty secret

15 May 2019

Is the ‘epidemic of loneliness’ fake news?

08 May 2019

Will the machines take control?

30 Apr 2019

Why do the Greens make so many see red?

25 Apr 2019

Just how harmful is porn?

03 Apr 2019

The latest front in the gender wars

26 Mar 2019

Stop trying to explain mass shootings

20 Mar 2019

How we made a monster

13 Mar 2019

Do police numbers really affect knife crime?

06 Mar 2019

Is cancer screening doing more harm than good?

27 Feb 2019

Are you truly unfakeable?

19 Feb 2019

Do we really have a ‘suicidal generation’?

04 Feb 2019

Is this the end of personal responsibility?

28 Jan 2019

How politics makes us irrational

16 Jan 2019

The risks of scaremongering

07 Jan 2019

What’s the point of arguing with an idiot?

25 Dec 2018

Why you should read more history

18 Dec 2018

How racist is Britain?

14 Dec 2018

How bigoted is Brexit?

04 Dec 2018

Has a Chinese chancer won the gene-editing race?

28 Nov 2018

Could you predict Brexit?

21 Nov 2018

Why we should fear technophobia

15 Nov 2018

Don’t fight dirty with statistics

08 Nov 2018

Are you in control of your politics?

30 Oct 2018

How much does your opinion count?

25 Oct 2018

Should we edit genes to boost IQ?

16 Oct 2018

Don’t be so quick to laugh at the ‘grievance study’ hoax

05 Oct 2018

Can we really call Jeremy Corbyn an antisemite?

27 Sep 2018

What can Occam’s razor tell us about God?

17 Sep 2018

What’s the point of arguing with an idiot?

30 Aug 2018

So you think you’re open-minded…

03 Aug 2018

What an octopus can teach us about being human

25 Jul 2018

How Disney shows an AI apocalypse is possible

16 Jul 2018

Why you can’t rely on the news media to understand… science

13 Mar 2018

Why flawed science should concern us all

12 Feb 2018