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“. . . if the major media picks up on this story, they will have the chance to report on what arguably is the worst—and most harmful—scandal in American medical history”

A legal campaign against universities and think tanks seeks to undermine the fight against false claims about elections, vaccines and other hot political topics.- aimed against those that study the spread of disinformation.

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The proportion of publications that send a field in a new direction has plummeted over the past half-century.

Final 2022 spending bill trims Biden’s big spending boosts for research

A study of asthmatic children, most of them Black, shows how a common clinical trial design can expose vulnerable participants to serious risks

Research projects stalled under the Trump administration may now be able to move forward, but the impacts of the more restrictive policy could reverberate if the policy shrank the pipeline of scientists entering the field.

And what it lost in the process

In fact, they've been doing scientific research since the days of Florence Nightingale