The Arday affair got more attention than systematic assaults on academic freedom

Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...

Madhukar Pai of McGill University says tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and ...

Exploring the role of randomization across decision theory, clinical trials, politics, evolutionary biology and genetics

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SCORE shows that there is no shortcut to producing credible research findings, and there is no single indicator of trustworthiness. Research progress depends on transparency, rigor, and establishing r...

After 30 years, we’re expanding the role readers have in our music criticism and giving you full access to the reviews archive

If we don’t slow down, the research enterprise is going to crash, argues Adrian Barnett.

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ High-profile studies reporting the presence of microplastics throughout the human body have been thrown into doubt by scientists who say the discoveries are probably the result of contamination and false positives. One chemist called the concerns “a bombshell”. Studies claiming to have revealed micro and nanoplastics in the brain, testes, placentas, arteries and elsewhere were reported by media across the world, including the Guardian. There is no doubt that plastic pollution of the natural world is ubiquitous, and present in the food and drink we consume and the air we breathe. But the health damage potentially caused by microplastics and the chemicals they contain is unclear, and an explosion of research has taken off in this area in recent years. Continue reading...

Progressives have increasingly lost faith in the First Amendment—at least as it has been interpreted and applied by the Supreme Court.  They argue that free speech has been “weaponized” by big busines...

Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards

Salary: £120,800 Closing date: 9th November Contract type: Permanent Interview dates: 24th and 28th November The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by fun...

In the 10th essay in the Legacies of Eugenics series, Jay S. Kaufman shows how the science of human body size is suffused with cultural assumptions.

Reflecting on our paper “The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly”

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are pleased to invite applications for two PhD studentships in real-time

Some meetings have been put on hold in response to foreign researchers’ travel concerns.

An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

A ProPublica analysis of sepsis in second-trimester pregnancy loss after Texas' near-total abortion ban went into effect - propublica/tx-pregnancy-loss-sepsis-analysis

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After years of committed action, neither city recorded a single pedestrian fatality in 2019

Following the Trump administration's DEI ban, the FDA's move to scrub webpages has ensnared many pages focused on ensuring diversity in drug trials.

President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not e...

President Trump pardoned men who violently attacked police officers on Jan. 6 along with nearly 1,600 other people who had been charged in connection with the riot. But his grant of clemency did not e...