Letters: Writing About Science. Readers disagree with criticism of recent opinion pieces in The New York Times about the origins of Covid-19 and the public health response to it.

These principles are scientific facts, not political manipulations, and have been validated by impartial scientific experts (biologists, geneticists, and climate scientists) to a degree comparable ...

Letters to the Editor: Defunding scientific research at Harvard and other colleges is a threat to American exceptionalism Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass. (Andrew Lichtenstein / Corbis / Getty Images) ...

Re “Global warming denier?” (7/9): This letter says that my previous letter asserted that “only one climate scientist out of 1,000” is a climate denier. Actually it’s fewer than 1 in 69,000 climate ...

Clark County Commissioner David Madore's pleasantly surprising email to me reads "I have a high regard for rational logical evidenced based thinking. I love ... engaging in practical problem ...

Climate change “alarmism” not scientific. A recent letter to the editor about the looming threat of global warming, and the value of meatless meals to help save the planet, simply cries out ...

For science writing, that means treating individual papers as a sacrosanct atomic unit and writing about them one at a time. But for an omnicrisis, this approach leads only to a messy, ...

Moon Duchin in her very informative article “ Geometry v. Gerrymandering ” in the November issue of Scientific American, talks about how mathematicians are developing forensics to identify ...

Please, Mr. President, do not destroy American science. This, more than anything, is what made America great and will allow America to compete for a prosperous future. Michael Pravica, Henderson, Nev.