Predatory journals and political interference threaten scientific independence, undermining research integrity and public trust. Industries, notably tobacco, manipulate science through misinformation ...

A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan divide over science has widened dramatically. While 77% of Americans have at ...

Pittsburgh-area science experts are warning that the public’s health could be in jeopardy after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the sudden cancellation of 22 federally funded vaccine ...

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics. Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed ...

Trump says the coronavirus is "going away." Scientists warn it's not. With the novel coronavirus pandemic impossible to ignore out of existence, President Donald Trump has found a new foil -- in ...

Annotation The book explores the contratutions & challenges presented when scientific authority centers the sealm of environmental affairs. Annotation It seems self-evident that science plays a ...