Citation Index

Antiscience

•    'Just Asking Questions': How Healthy Skepticism Morphed Into Toxic Denialism
  
•    'US Anti-Science Stance Poses Global Existential Threat'
  
•    36 Timeless Quotes From Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
  
•    A Gateway Conspiracy? Belief in COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Prospectively Predicts Greater Conspiracist Ideation
  
•    Anti-intellectualism in American Life
  
•    Anti-Science Bills Hit Statehouses, Attacking Longstanding Public Health Protections
  
•    Anti-Science Bills Hit Statehouses, Attacking Longstanding Public Health Protections
  
•    Antiscience
  
•    Antiscience Is an Existential Threat (Mann & Hotez)
  
•    Antiscience Is an Existential Threat (Mann & Hotez)
  
•    Believers in Pseudoscience Present Lower Evidential Criteria
  
•    Carl Sagan Presents His 'Baloney Detection Kit': Tools for Skeptical Thinking
  
•    CDC Reduces US Childhood Immunization Schedule From 17 to 11 Diseases
  
•    Considering COVID a Hoax Is 'Gateway' to Belief in Conspiracy Theories
  
•    Counter-Enlightenment
  
•    Countering Science-Related Populist Speech
  
•    Crystal Healing
  
•    Cultivating Silence: Nikolai Vavilov and the Suppression of Science in the Modern Era
  
•    Deplatforming did not decrease Parler users' activity on fringe social media
  
•    Digital Governance: Disinformation and Information Integrity
  
•    Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
  
•    Do Not Be So Open-Minded That Your Brains Fall Out
  
•    Enhancing Algorithmic Transparency
  
•    Estimating Vaccine-Preventable COVID-19 Deaths Under Counterfactual Vaccination Scenarios in the United States
  
•    Exploring the wild and disturbing world of "scienceploitation"
  
•    Exploring YouTube's Recommendation System in the Context of COVID-19 Vaccines: Computational and Comparative Analysis of Video Trajectories
  
•    For All You Know
  
•    Four Ways to Inspire Humble Curiosity in Your Students
  
•    How Online Platform Transparency Can Improve Content Moderation and Algorithmic Performance
  
•    Inoculating Against Misinformation (interview with John Cook)
  
•    Just Asking Questions
  
•    Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life (Shapin & Schaffer, 1985)
  
•    Mind over matter? The cognitive styles of scientific scepticism and paranormal belief
  
•    Misinformation warning labels are widely effective: A review of warning effects and their moderating features
  
•    Moral Reframing: A Technique for Effective and Persuasive Communication Across Political Divides (Feinberg & Willer, 2019)
  
•    Motivated Rejection of Science (Lewandowsky & Oberauer, 2016)
  
•    NIH Funding in Limbo and What It Means for Your Grants
  
•    NIH Has Spent 15 Percent of Its Research Budget Halfway Through the Year
  
•    No, You're Not 'Just Asking Questions.' You're Spreading Disinformation.
  
•    Populist Attitudes and Misinformation Challenging Trust: The Case of Turkey
  
•    Profiling antivaccination channels in Telegram: early efforts in detecting misinformation
  
•    Pseudoscience
  
•    Pseudoscience
  
•    Pseudoscience and the Demarcation Problem
  
•    Red Flags and Cherry Picking: Reading The Scientific Blackpill Wiki
  
•    RFK Jr. removes all current members of CDC vaccine advisory committee
  
•    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
  
•    Science-Related Populism: Conceptualizing Populist Demands Toward Science (Mede & Schäfer, 2020)
  
•    Study: False news spreads faster than the truth
  
•    The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands (Peter J. Hotez)
  
•    The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands (Peter J. Hotez)
  
•    The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
  
•    The Benefits of Admitting When You Don't Know
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
  
•    The Disastrous Effects of Lysenkoism on Soviet Agriculture
  
•    The Moral Roots of Environmental Attitudes (Feinberg & Willer, 2013)
  
•    The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
  
•    The Trump Administration's Foreign Aid Review: Status of U.S. Support for Gavi the Vaccine Alliance
  
•    Tool Tracks Trump Administration's Attacks on Science
  
•    Tracking NIH Awards in FY 2026
  
•    Trofim Lysenko
  
•    Trump admin cancels over $12B in health care grants
  
•    Trump budget proposal aims to cut $5 billion from NIH
  
•    Trumpism, Climate and COVID: Social Bases of the New Science Rejection (Hamilton, 2024)
  
•    Understanding and Countering Misinformation About Climate Change
  
•    Understanding Experiment: Shapin and Schaffer's Leviathan and the Air Pump
  
•    US Science After a Year of Trump: What Has Been Lost and What Remains
  
•    Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival (Johnson et al., 2018)
  
•    We need to talk about the anti-science movement
  
•    White House Lifts Hold on NIH Research Spending
  
•    Why homeopathy is pseudoscience
  

Artificial Intelligence

•    AI Hallucinated Citations: How to Spot Fake Sources Before You Submit
  
•    AI in the Age of Fake (Imagined) Content
  
•    AI in the Age of Fake (Imagined) Content
  
•    Fraudulent citations, blamed on AI hallucinations, are becoming more common in research papers
  
•    Fraudulent Citations, Blamed on AI Hallucinations, Are Becoming More Common in Research Papers
  
•    From AI to 'killer robots': UN chief issues urgent governance call
  
•    Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done?
  
•    Jieun Shin - Research Profile
  
•    New WHO report calls for stronger ethics oversight of AI-related health research
  
•    OpenAI launches Dots AI agents amid safety questions
  
•    OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
  
•    OpenAI reveals its AI agents hid mistakes and bypassed restrictions
  
•    Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
  
•    Sycophantic Chatbots Inflate People's Perceptions That They Are 'Better Than Average'
  
•    Technological Folie à Deux: Feedback Loops Between AI Chatbots and Mental Illness
  
•    UN report warns AI is advancing faster than science, regulation
  
•    What Are AI Hallucinations in Research: Causes, Examples, and Risks
  
•    What Are AI Hallucinations in Research: Causes, Examples, and Risks
  
•    When AI Agents Go Too Far: A Wake-Up Call for Government
  

Climate Change

•    'The New Climate War' exposes tactics of climate change 'inactivists' (review of Michael E. Mann's book)
  
•    2025 National Nuclear Energy Public Opinion Survey
  
•    7.3: Depletion of the Ozone Layer
  
•    91% of New Renewable Projects Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuels Alternatives (July 2025)
  
•    A Complete Guide to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  
•    About Montreal Protocol
  
•    Assessing ExxonMobil's Global Warming Projections (Supran, Rooney & Oreskes, 2023)
  
•    Atlantic Collapse: Q&A With Scientists Behind Controversial Study Predicting a Colder Europe
  
•    Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  
•    Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  
•    Attack of the Climate-Denial Books
  
•    Billion-Dollar Climate Denial Network Exposed
  
•    BloombergNEF Finds Global Energy Transition Investment Reached Record $2.3 Trillion in 2025, Up 8% from 2024
  
•    Book Review: A Call to Arms About the Threat of Anti-Science
  
•    Carbon Dioxide Emissions
  
•    Changes to Carbon Isotopes in Atmospheric CO2 Over the Industrial Era and Into the Future (Global Biogeochemical Cycles)
  
•    Chapter 11: Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate
  
•    Chapter 3: Human Influence on the Climate System
  
•    Chlorofluorocarbons and Ozone Depletion
  
•    Chlorofluorocarbons and Ozone Depletion
  
•    Climate & Lobsters
  
•    Climate & Skiing
  
•    Climate Censorship? Scientists React to Federal Website Purges
  
•    Climate Change Denial
  
•    Climate change in the Alps: is this the end of skiing?
  
•    Climate Change: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
  
•    Climate Change: Global Sea Level
  
•    Climate Change: Global Temperature
  
•    Climate Change: Ocean Heat Content
  
•    Climate Education That Builds Hope and Agency, Not Fear (Corbin, Duffy, Gill & Ziter)
  
•    CO2 Emissions -- Global Energy Review 2026
  
•    COP29: Doomism is turning audiences off climate action - so let's share the success stories (Linda Stewart)
  
•    Counteracting Climate Denial: A Systematic Review
  
•    Earlier plantings underlie yield gains in northern Corn Belt
  
•    EPICA Dome C 800Kyr CO2 Data (NOAA/NCEI Paleoclimatology Program)
  
•    Explainer: What the New IPCC Report Says About Extreme Weather and Climate Change
  
•    Extreme Weather and Climate Change
  
•    Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago
  
•    Favoring the Elites: Think Tanks and Discourse Coalitions
  
•    Food Insecurity: Arctic Heat Is Threatening Indigenous Life
  
•    Foundations of Climate Change Denial: Anti-environmentalism and Anti-science
  
•    Global Greenhouse Gas Overview
  
•    Global Temperature — Earth Indicator
  
•    Greater than 99% Consensus on Human Caused Climate Change in the Peer-Reviewed Scientific Literature (Environmental Research Letters, 16(11), 114005)
  
•    Historical Progress
  
•    How the U.S. Government Is Aggressively Censoring Climate Science
  
•    I Was an Exxon-Funded Climate Scientist
  
•    In-depth Q&A: The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Science
  
•    Industrial applications and nuclear cogeneration
  
•    IPCC Report Finds Key Role for Nuclear in Climate Change Mitigation
  
•    Limiting Overshoot: Navigating Exceedance of 1.5C and Pathways Towards Return (Sept. 2026)
  
•    Limiting Overshoot: Navigating Exceedance of 1.5C and Pathways Towards Return / press release (Sept. 2, 2026)
  
•    Massive expansion of renewable power opens door to achieving global tripling goal set at COP28
  
•    Meta-Analytic Evidence That Message Fatigue Is Associated With Unintended Persuasive Outcomes (Keating & Skurka, 2024)
  
•    Methane Emissions
  
•    Montreal Protocol Emerges as a Powerful Climate Treaty
  
•    Nitrous Oxide Emissions
  
•    Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System
  
•    Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System
  
•    Ozone Destruction Cycles
  
•    Physics of an AMOC Overshoot in a Box Model
  
•    Public trust and mistrust of climate science: A meta-narrative review (Fage-Butler, Ledderer & Nielsen, 2022)
  
•    Putting Politics Above Scientific Truth
  
•    Q&A: Why is Germany phasing out nuclear power - and why now?
  
•    Redacting the Science of Climate Change
  
•    Renewable Capacity Statistics 2026 / 'Near-700 GW Surge in 2025 Proves Renewable Energy Resilience' press release (April 2026)
  
•    Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2023 (Report and Press Release, "Record Growth Drives Cost Advantage of Renewable Power")
  
•    Renewable Power Generation Costs in 2023 - Executive Summary
  
•    Renewables 2025 - Executive Summary
  
•    Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates Despite Cost Inflation
  
•    Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates Despite Cost Inflation
  
•    Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates Despite Cost Inflation
  
•    Renewables Competitiveness Accelerates Despite Cost Inflation
  
•    Science Under Siege
  
•    Science Under Siege (Book Review)
  
•    Science Under Siege - Book Quotes
  
•    Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World (Mann & Hotez, 2025)
  
•    Smoke From Canadian Wildfires May Affect NYC Air Quality
  
•    Stable Isotopes: How Carbon-14 Tells Us About Fossil Fuel CO2
  
•    Summary for Policymakers
  
•    Temperatures Rising: NASA Confirms 2024 Warmest Year on Record
  
•    The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
  
•    The Financial Case for Fossil Fuel Divestment
  
•    The Influence of Corporate Funding on the Climate Change Debate (summarizing Farrell 2016, PNAS)
  
•    The Nuclear Workforce: An Essential Energy Priority Facing the Nation
  
•    U.N. climate panel says RCP 8.5, the worst-case scenario, is 'implausible.' (May 19, 2026)
  
•    UNEP: New climate pledges need 'quantum leap' in ambition to deliver Paris goals
  
•    Unstoppable climate change? The influence of fatalistic beliefs about climate change on behavioural change and willingness to pay cross-nationally (Mayer & Smith, 2018)
  
•    Warming Seas and Melting Ice Sheets
  
•    Warning of a Forthcoming Collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Ditlevsen & Ditlevsen, 2023)
  
•    Watching the Ozone Hole Before and After the Montreal Protocol
  
•    What are the safest and cleanest sources of energy?
  
•    Why Did the Montreal Protocol Succeed?
  

Ethical Concerns

•    A Worldwide Itinerary of Research Ethics in Science for a Better Social Responsibility and Justice: A Bibliometric Analysis and Review
  
•    Awareness of the Dual-Use Dilemma in Scientific Research: Reflections and Challenges to Latin America
  
•    Biosecurity and Dual-Use Research in the Life Sciences - Science and Security in a Post 9/11 World
  
•    Diabetes (insulin)
  
•    From Dogs, Goats, and Pigs to Humans: The History of Kidney Transplantation
  
•    Institutional Review Board (IRB)
  
•    Institutional Review Boards and Ethics Committees
  
•    Institutionalising Ethics in AI through Broader Impact Requirements
  
•    New Approach Methodologies (NAMs)
  
•    Regulatory Oversight
  
•    Research Integrity: Definitions and Challenges
  
•    The Three Rs
  
•    What Is Ethics in Research & Why Is It Important?
  
•    What Is Research Integrity?
  

Evolution

•    8.2: Determining Evolutionary Relationships
  
•    8.2: Determining Evolutionary Relationships
  
•    An 150-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is the Link Between Birds and Dinosaurs
  
•    An Evolution Prediction
  
•    Archaeopteryx: Facts About the Transitional Fossil
  
•    Chimpanzee vs. Human DNA: How Similar Are We, Exactly?
  
•    Common Ancestry: AP Biology Review
  
•    Comparative Anatomy
  
•    Comparing Chimp, Bonobo and Human DNA
  
•    DNA Evidence for Evolution: Endogenous Retroviruses
  
•    Endogenous Retroviruses and Human Evolution
  
•    Endogenous Retroviruses and Human Evolution
  
•    Evolution in Real Time: An Interview with Peter and Rosemary Grant
  
•    Evolution in Real Time: An Interview with Peter and Rosemary Grant
  
•    Evolution of Life in Urban Environments
  
•    Genome Study Reveals 30 Years of Darwin's Finch Evolution
  
•    God of the Gaps
  
•    God of the Gaps, Natural Theology, and Intelligent Design (Erkki V. R. Kojonen)
  
•    Misconceptions About Natural Selection
  
•    Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution
  
•    Newfound Fossil Is Transitional Between Fish and Landlubbers
  
•    Newly Found Species Bridges Fish, Land Animals
  
•    Newly Found Species Fills Evolutionary Gap Between Fish and Land Animals
  
•    The Galapagos Finches and Natural Selection
  
•    Urban Evolution: How Species Adapt to Survive in Cities
  

Genetics

•    About the Coordinated Framework
  
•    Advances in Delivery Mechanisms of CRISPR Gene-Editing Reagents in Plants
  
•    Agroinfiltration Mediated Scalable Transient Gene Expression in Genome Edited Crop Plants
  
•    CRISPR & Ethics
  
•    Editing the Future: Ethical Challenges of Therapeutic Use, Germline Modification and Human Enhancement with CRISPR
  
•    Gene Drives Could Fight Malaria and Other Global Killers but Might Have Unintended Consequences
  
•    Gene Drives, Species Complexes, and the Risks of Collateral Damage
  
•    Generation of CRISPR-Edited Birch Plants Without DNA Integration Using Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Technology
  
•    Genetically Modified Plants: Nutritious, Sustainable, yet Underrated
  
•    Golden Rice
  
•    Green Biotech: Methods of Genetic Engineering in Plants
  
•    Green Biotech: Methods of Genetic Engineering in Plants
  
•    National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Report on Genetically Engineered Crops Influences Public Discourse
  
•    Once Again, U.S. Expert Panel Says Genetically Engineered Crops Are Safe to Eat
  
•    Principles and Policy Recommendations for Comprehensive Genetic Data Governance
  
•    Privacy Laws, Ethics and the Conundrum of DNA
  
•    Protecting Privacy of a New Corporate Asset: User DNA
  
•    Science and History of GMOs and Other Food Modification Processes
  
•    Setting Ethical Limits on Human Gene Editing After the Fall of the Somatic/Germline Barrier
  
•    The Influence of GMO Media Strategies on Public Perceptions of CRISPR Crop Technologies in Southern Ontario
  
•    The Original Frankenfoods: Origins of Our Fear of Genetic Engineering
  
•    The post's synthetic biology paragraph includes the phrase 'see this example' with no actual link attached
  
•    Think GMOs Aren't Regulated? Think Again
  
•    U.S. National Academy of Science Reaffirms Safety of GMOs for 11th Time, But Confuses the Story on Yields
  

Global Inequities

•    A New Report by the WHO Highlights Gaps in Human Genomics Research
  
•    Demand for English Hurts Marginalised Researchers
  
•    End the Glaring Inequity in International Science Collaborations (editorial, Dec 2023)
  
•    How English-Centric Metrics Distort Global Scientific Productivity
  
•    Human Genomics Technologies in Clinical Studies - The Research Landscape (1990-2024)
  
•    Language, Economic and Gender Disparities Widen the Scientific Productivity Gap (Amano et al., 2025)
  
•    Maldivian Leaders Might Move the Entire Nation to Australia If Sea Keeps Rising
  
•    Rising sea-level to submerge around 17pc of Bangladesh by 2050
  
•    Sub-Saharan Africa emits a tiny fraction of the world's CO2
  
•    The WHO Genomics Program of Work for Equitable Implementation of Human Genomics for Global Health
  
•    Too Hot to Handle: How Climate Change May Make Some Places Too Hot to Live
  
•    Who has contributed most to global CO2 emissions?
  
•    World Bank report finds climate change could internally displace over 200 million people by 2050
  

Green Energy

•    A Michigan County Claiming Solar Farms Are a Health Threat Isn't Alone
  
•    A scalding hot 'sand battery' is now heating a small Finnish town
  
•    Are Solar Panels Dangerous? The Health Effect of Solar Panels
  
•    Can Solar Panels Warm Their Surroundings? Yes, But So Can Other Materials
  
•    Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
  
•    Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES)
  
•    Debunking Myths About Solar Panel Toxicity: Fact Sheet
  
•    Debunking Solar Myths: Toxic Chemicals, Heat Island Effect and Farmland
  
•    Energy Storage 2026: Iron-Air, Vanadium Flow & CAES
  
•    Ensuring Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Electric Vehicles Compared to Hybrid Gasoline Vehicles Requires a Cleaner U.S. Electricity Grid
  
•    Global Fossil Fuel Subsidies Remain Large: An Update Based on Country-Level Estimates
  
•    How Much in Subsidies Do Fossil Fuels Receive?
  
•    How Pumped Storage Hydropower Works
  
•    How solar thermal energy storage works with concentrated solar
  
•    How solar thermal energy storage works with concentrated solar
  
•    How Wind Can Help Us Breathe Easier
  
•    Hydrogen (Energy Transition / Technology)
  
•    Hydrogen (Energy Transition / Technology)
  
•    Is Renewable Energy Reliable in a High-Demand World?
  
•    Is Solar and Wind Energy Reliable? The Data Explained
  
•    Lifecycle Emissions of Electric Cars vs. Gasoline
  
•    Long-Duration Energy Storage: Powering a Cleaner Future
  
•    Long-Duration Solutions Discussed at Energy Storage Conference
  
•    Lower Environmental Impacts for Closed-Loop Pumped-Storage - New National Lab Study
  
•    Pumped storage hydropower explained: how it works and why it matters
  
•    Sand Battery
  
•    Sodium-Ion Battery vs. Lithium-Ion Battery: Which One is Better?
  
•    Solar Myths Debunked: 15 Common Misconceptions About Solar Panels
  
•    Ten Persistent Myths of Solar Power Debunked
  
•    Ten Persistent Myths of Solar Power Debunked
  
•    The Future of Energy Storage: An Interdisciplinary MIT Study
  
•    Types of Energy Storage Technologies: Complete Guide
  
•    Vanadium Flow Battery Energy Storage
  
•    What Are Sodium-Ion Batteries and How Do They Compare to Lithium-Ion Batteries?
  
•    Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity From Fossil-Fuel Plants
  
•    Wind Turbines and Solar Panels Are Lower-Emissions Than Fossil Fuels Overall
  
•    Wind Turbines Can Kill Birds, But Not as Many as Fossil Fuels and Other Anthropogenic Impacts
  

Political Interference

•    "Not Just Measles": Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline
  
•    ACIP Recommends COVID-19 Vaccination Based on Individual Decision-Making
  
•    Anti-science bills hit statehouses, attacking longstanding public health protections
  
•    Anti-science bills hit statehouses...
  
•    Anti-science bills hit statehouses...
  
•    Anti-science bills hit statehouses...
  
•    Attacks on Science Methodology (Barbati-Dajches et al., 2026)
  
•    Attacks on Science Tracker (interactive tool)
  
•    Cassidy avoids blowups in faceoff with RFK Jr.
  
•    CDC vaccine panel opens Day 2 with a reversal and a surprise
  
•    CDC: Ever-expanding US measles outbreak tops last year's total
  
•    Defending Scientific Integrity
  
•    Executive Order 14303—Restoring Gold Standard Science
  
•    FDA Declines to Endorse Leucovorin for Autism, Approves It for Cerebral Folate Deficiency
  
•    Five Cases of Political Threats Against Scientific Integrity
  
•    Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
  
•    Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research
  
•    I helped declare the U.S. measles-free in 2000. I'm dismayed by where we are now
  
•    Map shows more than 2,200 measles cases across U.S. in 2025 outbreaks
  
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•    NIH canceled grants totaling $1.8 billion in Trump cuts
  
•    NIH Grant Terminations Disrupt Hundreds of Clinical Trials, Affecting More Than 74,000 Participants
  
•    Only 13% of Federal Agencies have Adequate Safeguards Protecting Science from Political Interference
  
•    Opinion: The Problem With Promoting 'Gold Standard Science' (Jonathan P. Scaccia)
  
•    Protecting Government Science from Political Interference: A Blueprint for Defending Scientific Integrity and Safeguarding the Public (Desikan, 2024)
  
•    RFK Jr. Aides Accused of Censoring NIH's Top Ultra-Processed Food Scientist
  
•    RFK Jr. confirmed as new HHS secretary
  
•    RFK Jr. says measles vaccine routinely causes deaths. That's not true
  
•    RFK Jr.'s HHS layoffs begin; thousands of FDA, CDC workers axed
  
•    Science Agencies Pull 'Political Interference' Protections From Scientific Integrity Policies
  
•    Scientists stunned as RFK Jr. taps vaccine critic to lead autism study
  
•    Second child dies from measles-related causes in West Texas
  
•    Senate Introduces Scientific Integrity Act to Protect Public Health Science
  
•    Tenets of Gold Standard Science
  
•    The post's specific claim that 'EO 14303 says nothing about preventing political interference before disseminating scientific findings' could not be independently verified against a specific source in this research pass
  
•    Tool Tracks Trump Administration's Attacks on Science (press release)
  
•    Trump-RFK Jr.'s FDA in Science Freefall: The Leucovorin Autism 'Cure' Fiasco Is One of Many
  
•    Ultra-Processed Foods Researcher Leaves NIH, Alleges Censorship
  
•    Understanding the NIH's New Indirect Cost Rate Policy
  
•    What Is Scientific Integrity — and How Does It Keep All of Us Safe?
  

Public Health

•    "Alternative" medicine's toll on cancer patients: Death rate up to 5X higher
  
•    5G & Health
  
•    5G & Health
  
•    5G, COVID conspiracy theory claims 77 UK phone masts
  
•    About Non-Ionizing Radiation
  
•    Acupuncture (PDQ) - Patient Version
  
•    Acupuncture for the Prevention of Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  
•    Adverse Events Associated With Antibiotics and Intravenous Therapies for Post-Lyme Disease Syndrome in a Commercially Insured Sample
  
•    Anatomy Of A COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory
  
•    Bullseye: How Yale Researchers Identified Lyme Disease
  
•    CDC: 'Chronic Lyme' treatments carry serious risk
  
•    CDC: 'Chronic Lyme' treatments carry serious risk
  
•    Chronic Symptoms and Lyme Disease
  
•    Chronic Symptoms and Lyme Disease
  
•    Community Water Fluoridation at Optimal Levels Is Safe and Effective
  
•    Complementary Medicine, Refusal of Conventional Cancer Therapy, and Survival Among Patients With Curable Cancers (Johnson et al., 2018)
  
•    Conspiracy beliefs and science rejection
  
•    Contrails
  
•    Declining Conventional Cancer Treatment and Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine: A Problem or a Challenge?
  
•    Do Seed Oils Cause Inflammation?
  
•    Durban Declaration
  
•    Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Patients With Chronic Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
  
•    Electromagnetic hypersensitivity
  
•    Estimating the Lost Benefits of Antiretroviral Drug Use in South Africa (Chigwedere et al., 2008)
  
•    Everyday Evaluation of Herb/Dietary Supplement-Drug Interaction: A Pilot Study
  
•    Fact Checked: The Dangers of Drinking Raw Milk
  
•    Fluoridation in Water
  
•    Fluoridation in Water
  
•    Global Analysis and Prediction of Fluoride in Groundwater
  
•    Global Analysis and Prediction of Fluoride in Groundwater
  
•    Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality: Guideline Technical Document - Fluoride
  
•    Health and Safety of 5G: Addressing Misinformation
  
•    Herbal Supplements
  
•    HIV/AIDS denialism
  
•    Homeopathy
  
•    Homeopathy
  
•    Homeopathy (fact sheet, citing 2012 National Health Interview Survey)
  
•    Homeopathy no more effective than placebos, a study by the National Health and Medical Research Council finds (2015)
  
•    Ionizing radiation and health effects (fact sheet)
  
•    Lyme Disease Antibiotic Treatment Research
  
•    Most long-lived contrails form within cirrus clouds with uncertain climate impact
  
•    Myth-Busting Study Shows Controversial Seed Oils Reduce Inflammation
  
•    Prebunking interventions based on the psychological theory of ""inoculation"" can reduce susceptibility to misinformation across cultures
  
•    Putting Integrative Oncology Into Practice: Concepts and Approaches
  
•    Quantifying expert consensus against the existence of a secret, large-scale atmospheric spraying program
  
•    Radiation risks are real. But no cause for radiophobia.
  
•    Raw Milk
  
•    Raw Milk Misconceptions and the Danger of Raw Milk Consumption
  
•    Raw Milk: Questions Patients May Have and How to Answer
  
•    Screening for Consistency and Contamination Within and Between Bottles of 29 Herbal Supplements
  
•    Seed Oil Misinformation
  
•    Seed Oils: Separating Fact From Fiction
  
•    Solar geoengineering and the chemtrails conspiracy on social media
  
•    The Dangers of Raw Milk: Unpasteurized Milk Can Pose a Serious Health Risk
  
•    The Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on Perceived Pain Intensity and Quality of Life in Patients With Chronic Headache
  
•    The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence
  
•    The Evidence Behind Seed Oils' Health Effects
  
•    The Psychology of AIDS Denialism: Pseudoscience, Conspiracy Thinking, and Medical Mistrust (Kalichman, 2014)
  
•    The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories
  
•    The Truth About Seed Oils, According to MSK
  
•    The Wrong Label for the Right Warning: Complementary Medicine, Cancer Survival, and the Cost of Imprecision
  
•    Understanding the origins and prevalence of AIDS conspiracy beliefs in the United States and South Africa (Nattrass, 2013)
  
•    Use of Alternative Medicine for Cancer and Its Impact on Survival (Johnson et al., 2018)
  
•    Vital Signs: Progress Toward Eliminating HIV as a Global Public Health Threat Through Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy...Worldwide, 2004-2022
  
•    Water Fluoridation Facts
  
•    What Is 'Water Memory'? Why This Homeopathy Claim Doesn't Hold Water
  
•    Which Type and Dosage of Mindfulness-Based Interventions Are Most Effective for Chronic Pain? A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis
  
•    Why our fear of radiation far exceeds the threat and how this holds back clean energy
  
•    Why Patients Use Alternative Medicine: Results of a National Study (Astin, 1998)
  
•    X-Ray Hesitancy: Patients' Radiophobic Concerns Over Medical X-rays (Oakley & Harrison, 2020)
  
•    Young Chinese people's radiological beliefs significantly associated with their opinions on nuclear power
  

Public Trust

•    10 years ago, Elisabeth Bik published a preprint heard around the world
  
•    77% of Americans Trust in Science New Survey Finds
  
•    77% of Americans Trust in Science, New Survey Finds
  
•    Americans' Confidence in Scientists (January 2026)
  
•    Americans' Trust in Scientists and Views of Science Decline in 2023
  
•    Americans' Trust in Scientists and Views of Science Decline in 2023
  
•    Americans' Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking (2024)
  
•    Are We Hard-Wired to Follow Celebrity Medical Advice?
  
•    Biological, Psychological and Social Processes That Explain Celebrities' Influence on Patients' Health-Related Behaviors
  
•    Bridging the Gap: Understanding Public Trust in Scientists
  
•    Building Relationships of Trust with Community Members (Nic Bennett literature review)
  
•    Community Engagement Builds Needed Trust in Science and Scientists
  
•    Community-Based Participatory Research Is Not Political
  
•    Cost of Retracted Articles to the NIH: a Living Analysis
  
•    Could not independently confirm this specific figure in this research pass
  
•    Could not independently confirm this specific figure or its cited source ('The Elm') in this research pass
  
•    Crisis or self-correction: Rethinking media narratives about the well-being of science
  
•    Enhancing Trust in Science: Current Challenges and Recommendations for Policymakers, the Scientific Community, Media, and Public (Chan, 2025)
  
•    Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science (Open Science Collaboration 2015)
  
•    Examining Public Trust in Science
  
•    Financial costs and personal consequences of research misconduct resulting in retracted publications
  
•    Half of top cancer studies fail high-profile reproducibility effort
  
•    How News Coverage Affects Public Trust in Science
  
•    How To Rebuild Trust in Science
  
•    Hype and Public Trust in Science
  
•    Journals Operating Predatory Practices Are Systematically Eroding the Science Ethos
  
•    Offline: Is There Really a Trust Crisis in Science?
  
•    Open Science and Public Trust in Science: Results from Two Studies
  
•    Open Science and Public Trust in Science: Results from Two Studies
  
•    Paper mills
  
•    Public Trust in Science: A Systematic Literature Review
  
•    Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking (2024)
  
•    Publication bias
  
•    Publish or perish
  
•    Questionable Research Practices (and research misbehaviors)
  
•    Reflections on the Decline of Science in England (1830), Ch. on Frauds of Observers
  
•    Replication crisis
  
•    Reproducibility of Scientific Results
  
•    Research paper mill
  
•    Study Reveals Strong Public Trust in Science Worldwide
  
•    Study: On Twitter, False News Travels Faster Than True Stories
  
•    Systematic manipulation of the publishing process via 'paper mills'
  
•    The Celebrity Effect: When and Why We Trust Fame More Than Evidence
  
•    The limitations to our understanding of peer review
  
•    The Prevalence of Inappropriate Image Duplication in Biomedical Research Publications
  
•    The Spread of True and False News Online
  
•    Threats to Science's Reputation - The Science of Science Communication III
  
•    Trust in Science: Why It's Declining and Becoming Politicized
  
•    Trust in Scientists and Their Role in Society Across 68 Countries (Cologna, Mede, Berger et al., 2025)
  
•    What Do We Know About Public Trust in Science? (Trust and Confidence at the Interfaces of the Life Sciences and Society)
  
•    Why Are Predatory Journals Still Winning?
  

Science Advocacy

•    Americans' Trust in Scientists and Views of Science Decline in 2023
  
•    An Ocean Sanctuary the Size of the UK
  
•    ARPANET
  
•    Birth of the Commercial Internet - NSF Impacts
  
•    Bridging the Gap: Inclusive Communication as Catalyst for Equitable Science
  
•    Climate Advocacy and Activism by Scientists: A Narrative Review
  
•    Climate Advocacy and Activism by Scientists: A Narrative Review
  
•    Climate Change Education: A Model of Justice-Oriented STEM Education
  
•    Consequential Insights for Advancing Informal STEM Learning and Outcomes for Students from Historically Marginalized Communities
  
•    Consistent Effects of Science and Scientist Characteristics on Public Trust Across Political Regimes
  
•    Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists? Results from a Randomized National Survey Experiment (Kotcher et al.)
  
•    Does Engagement in Advocacy Hurt the Credibility of Scientists? Results from a Randomized National Survey Experiment (Kotcher, Myers, Vraga, Stenhouse, Maibach 2017)
  
•    Embedding Citizen Science into Research Policy
  
•    For Billion-Dollar COVID Vaccines, Basic Government-Funded Science Laid the Groundwork
  
•    Fostering public trust in science: The role of social media (Huber, Barnidge, Gil de Zúñiga, Liu 2019)
  
•    How Contemporary Academic Structures Constrain Scientific Creativity and Hold Back Early-Career Researchers
  
•    How Does Change Start? By Showing Up
  
•    How Does Change Start? By Showing Up
  
•    How the U.S. Government Is Aggressively Censoring Climate Science
  
•    Human Genome Editing: Science, Ethics, and Governance - Public Engagement
  
•    Meet the Scientists Running for Public Office in 2018
  
•    Navigating the Credibility Risks of Environmental Scientists' Activism
  
•    New Research Suggests Returns on Federal Investments in R&D Are Much Higher Than Current Estimates
  
•    Pathways for Diversifying and Enhancing Science Advocacy
  
•    Policy Perspectives on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing
  
•    Public and Stakeholder Engagement in Developing Human Heritable Genome Editing Policies
  
•    Quantifying Fault Tolerant Simulation of Strongly Correlated Systems Using the Fermi-Hubbard Model
  
•    Reclaiming the Future: American Information Technology Leadership in an Era of Global Competition
  
•    Reconsidering the endurance of the 'Deficit Model' of science communication
  
•    Redacting the Science of Climate Change
  
•    Reimagining Public Understanding: Toward an Institutional Model
  
•    Science at the Table: The Importance of Federal Advisory Committees in Policymaking
  
•    Science Communication Demands a Critical Approach That Centers Inclusion, Equity, and Intersectionality
  
•    Science-Based Policymaking: The Need to Think Holistically, Realistically, and Institutionally
  
•    Scientific Evidence and Public Policy: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Enablers for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making
  
•    Scientific Evidence and Public Policy: A Systematic Review of Barriers and Enablers for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making
  
•    Scientific Evidence in Public Health Decision-Making: A Systematic Literature Review of the Past 50 Years
  
•    Taking Climate Change Here and Now - Mitigating Ideological Polarization with Psychological Distance
  
•    Taking Climate Change Here and Now - Mitigating Ideological Polarization with Psychological Distance (Chu & Yang, 2018)
  
•    Teaching STEM Through Climate Justice and Civic Engagement
  
•    The Science of Science Advocacy
  
•    The Spread of True and False News Online (Vosoughi, Roy & Aral, 2018)
  
•    US Public Investment in Development of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
  
•    When Experts Go Silent: Climate Misinformation Threatens Rights
  

Science Commercialization

•    Commercialization Challenges Open Science (Lahelma, Rahkonen & Lallukka, 2022)
  
•    Confronting Stem Cell Hype
  
•    From Foundation Funding to Academic Capitalism: Organizational Strategies for Interdisciplinary Sustainability
  
•    How Contemporary Academic Structures Constrain Scientific Creativity and Hold Back Early-Career Researchers
  
•    Hype and Public Trust in Science
  
•    Introduction: Commercialization of Academic Science and a New Agenda for Science Education
  
•    Jurassic Park (1990 novel) - Ian Malcolm's monologue
  
•    Next (2006 novel), plus Crichton's own public commentary on it
  
•    Pay Up or Retract? Survey Creator's Demands for Money Rile Some Health Researchers
  
•    People don't trust scientific research when companies are involved
  
•    Technology Commercialization Effects on the Conduct of Research in Higher Education
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits (Caulfield & Ogbogu, 2015)
  
•    The Commercialization of University-Based Research: Balancing Risks and Benefits (Caulfield & Ogbogu, 2015)
  
•    Whose Drugs Are These?
  

Science Education

•    "Stick to the science": when science gets political
  
•    (Mis)informed About What? What It Means to Be a Science-Literate Citizen in a Digital World
  
•    A Systematic Review of Research on the Integration of Real and Virtual Laboratories for Inquiry-Based Learning
  
•    Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963)
  
•    Anti-intellectualism in American Life (book)
  
•    Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (work by Hofstadter)
  
•    Book Review: The Death of Expertise by Tom Nichols
  
•    Book Review: Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise
  
•    Building Equity in STEM Education: Strategies for Ensuring Access for All Students
  
•    Critical Science Literacy: What Citizens and Journalists Need to Know to Make Sense of Science (Priest)
  
•    Diverse Voices in Science Journalism
  
•    Enhancing Experiential Science Learning with Virtual Labs: A Narrative Account of Merits, Challenges, and Implementation Strategies
  
•    Fallacies
  
•    Guidance for government Chief Scientific Advisers and their Officials
  
•    Guidance for government Chief Scientific Advisers and their Officials
  
•    Hasty Generalizations and Other Logical Fallacies
  
•    Inoculation Theory in the Post-Truth Era: Extant Findings and New Frontiers for Contested Science, Misinformation, and Conspiracy Theories
  
•    Intelligent design movement
  
•    Kemp Lecturer Tom Nichols Outlines the Death of Expertise and How to Fix It
  
•    Learning from Success: Lessons in Science and Diplomacy from the Montreal Protocol
  
•    Logical Fallacies
  
•    Logical Fallacies
  
•    National Science Education Standards - Principles and Definitions
  
•    Neutralizing Misinformation Through Inoculation: Exposing Misleading Argumentation Techniques Reduces Their Influence
  
•    Participation in Undergraduate Research Reduces Equity Gaps in STEM Graduation Rates
  
•    Physical and Virtual Laboratories in Science and Engineering Education
  
•    Political Distrust and the Populist Alt-View Trap
  
•    Populism and Inequality: Does Reality Match the Populist Rhetoric?
  
•    Populism and Inequality: Does Reality Match the Populist Rhetoric?
  
•    Promoting Scientific Literacy in the Science Classroom
  
•    Psychological Inoculation Improves Resilience Against Misinformation on Social Media
  
•    Reactions to On the Origin of Species
  
•    Religion and abortion
  
•    Religious groups' views on climate change
  
•    Science Advice to Governments
  
•    Science Denial: A Narrative Review and Recommendations for Future Research and Practice
  
•    Science journalists and public trust: comparative insights from Germany, Italy, and Lithuania
  
•    Science journalists and public trust: comparative insights from Germany, Italy, and Lithuania
  
•    Scientific Literacy in the Post-Truth Era
  
•    Straw Man
  
•    The Death of Expertise (review)
  
•    The Global Trust Deficit Disorder: A Communications Perspective on Trust in the Time of Global Pandemics
  
•    The Political Psychology of Inequality and Why It Matters for Populism
  
•    The Populist Paradox: Economic Pain, Enduring Power
  
•    The Psychology of Science Rejection (Rutjens & Hornsey)
  
•    Understanding Why People Reject Science Could Lead to Solutions for Rebuilding Trust
  
•    Watchdog science journalism: crucial yet precarious work
  
•    What Is Straw Man Fallacy? Definition & Examples
  
•    When Galileo Stood Trial for Defending Science
  
•    Why Are People Antiscience, and What Can We Do About It?
  
•    Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science (Hornsey, 2020)
  

Science Funding

•    'Science by Consensus' Impedes Scientific Creativity and Progress: A Simple Alternative to Funding Biomedical Research
  
•    2025's huge FDA staff cuts mostly didn't impact new drug review timelines
  
•    Americans Want Scientific Research. The Government Cut It Anyway.
  
•    An Open Letter to the American People from Former National Weather Service Directors
  
•    As NOAA braces for more cuts scientists say public safety is at risk
  
•    Bridging the Climate Research Divide: A Global Imperative for Equitable Resilience
  
•    Building Strong Grant Writers in Academic Medicine (UCSD Grant Writing Course outcomes)
  
•    Can NOAA weather the storm of budget cuts?
  
•    CDC battered by government shutdown firings while some are rescinded
  
•    CDC Layoffs Raise Questions About the Future of Public Health Surveillance
  
•    CDC plans hiring push to fill gaps from last year's widespread layoffs
  
•    Congressional Advocacy for HEP Funding
  
•    Cuts to NOAA increase the risk of deadly weather tragedies
  
•    Data Management and Sharing (DMS) and the Cost of Compliance
  
•    Do Funding Agencies Select and Enable Risky Research?
  
•    EPA Eliminates Office of Research and Development Will Cut Over 3700 Staff
  
•    EPA producing less scientific research after 20 percent staffing cut
  
•    Ethical Considerations and Statistical Analysis of Industry Involvement in Machine Learning Research
  
•    FDA's job cuts paint mixed picture for drugmakers' R&D plans
  
•    Federal Research Cuts Threaten U.S. Innovation and Leadership
  
•    Findings of the FASEB Survey on Administrative Burden
  
•    For more researchers securing NIH funding becomes a 'pipe dream'
  
•    From Science to Politics: How Staffing Cuts Deregulation and Political Influence Weakened FDA
  
•    Gil on the Hill February 2026 - Appropriations
  
•    Global Science Faces Persistent Geographic Disparities
  
•    Government Shutdowns Are 'Science Shutdowns'
  
•    Grant writing coaching groups: A randomized trial...
  
•    How Contemporary Academic Structures Constrain Scientific Creativity and Hold Back Early-Career Researchers
  
•    How cuts to CDC are dismantling its capacity to protect Americans' health
  
•    How the 2025 NIH grant terminations varied by researchers' demographic groups
  
•    How the Government Shutdown Is Impacting Science and Research
  
•    Inequality of Research Funding between Different Countries and Regions is a Serious Problem for Global Science
  
•    Mapping Federal Funding Cuts to U.S. Colleges and Universities
  
•    Navigating Industry Funding of Research
  
•    New Analysis: CDC's Budget Would be Reduced by 53 Percent
  
•    New Report Offers Roadmap for Reducing Regulatory Burdens on Research
  
•    NIH Grants Are More Competitive and Complicated
  
•    NIH Grants Policy Under the Second Trump Administration
  
•    Reports Say Cuts to Federal Research Funding Would Seriously Harm Economies
  
•    See the alarming extent of NIH and NSF funding cuts in 2025
  
•    The CDC is facing another round of deep staff cuts
  
•    The Cost of the Trump Administration's Attacks on Research Funding
  
•    The Costs of Competition in Distributing Scarce Research Funds
  
•    The Influence of Industry Sponsorship on the Research Agenda
  
•    The Lasting Threat of Trump's Cuts to NOAA and NWS on American Communities
  
•    The Potential for an Innovation Winter
  
•    Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025
  
•    Trust in Science Survey Topline (Wave 182)
  
•    U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown
  
•    US EPA plans to cut staff to 1980s levels dissolve research office
  
•    What America stands to lose: The toll of federal science research funding cuts
  
•    What the impacts of NIH cuts tell us about the future
  

Science General

•    36 Timeless Quotes from Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World
  
•    8.2 A Brief History of Science
  
•    Ancient Middle Eastern and Greek Astronomy
  
•    Astronomy in the Scientific Revolution
  
•    Awe and the Overview Effect: What Wonder Can Do For Your Well-Being
  
•    Carl Sagan Presents His "Baloney Detection Kit": Tools for Skeptical Thinking
  
•    Creatine-filled swag bags and an embrace from Vance: MAHA marks its ascendance in Trump's Washington
  
•    Critical thinking
  
•    Critical Thinking
  
•    False balance
  
•    Falsifiability
  
•    Four Great Inventions of China: Paper, Gunpowder, Printing and the Compass
  
•    General Relativity and the 1919 Solar Eclipse
  
•    General Relativity and the 1919 Solar Eclipse
  
•    History of Science - Greek Science, Philosophers, Astronomy
  
•    How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating
  
•    How To Read and Evaluate A Scientific Paper: A Guide for Non-Scientists
  
•    Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) - Father of Optics
  
•    Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for Teaching and Learning
  
•    Internal vs. External Validity: Understanding Differences & Threats
  
•    Islamic Golden Age: Unveiling the Scientific Revolution in the Islamic World
  
•    MAHA Summit Transcript - JD Vance / RFK Jr.
  
•    Misconceptions Misinformation and the Logic of Identity-Protective Cognition
  
•    Navigating the Scientific Method: A Step-by-Step Guide
  
•    On Being a Scientist: A Guide to Responsible Conduct in Research
  
•    One paper 20 years of damage
  
•    Planetary Motion: The History of an Idea That Launched the Scientific Revolution
  
•    Preregistration as a Way to Prevent Questionable Research Practice
  
•    Randomization, Blinding & Controls
  
•    Rational Irrationality: Modeling Climate Change Belief Polarization Using Bayesian Networks (Cook & Lewandowsky)
  
•    Reproducibility
  
•    Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
  
•    Science, method and critical thinking
  
•    Scientific Method
  
•    Scientific Method
  
•    Scientific Method and Experimentation
  
•    Scientific Methods and Knowledge - Reproducibility and Replicability in Science
  
•    Scientific Thinking is not Critical Thinking
  
•    Scrutinizing science: Peer review
  
•    Steps of the Scientific Method
  
•    The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World Quotes
  
•    The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
  
•    The Four Great Inventions of Ancient China, Their Legacy
  
•    The Logic of Scientific Discovery
  
•    The Science of Wonder
  
•    Thomas Bayes
  
•    Transcript - vaccine autism coverage featuring Jenny McCarthy
  
•    Understanding and avoiding false balance media coverage of climate change
  
•    What Are the Steps of the Scientific Method?
  
•    What Is Science?
  
•    What Is the Scientific Method? Steps & Examples
  

Science Literacy

•    2024 NAEP Reading Assessment - National Trends and Student Skills (Grade 4)
  
•    A Solution to America's K-12 STEM Teacher Shortage: Endowed Chairs
  
•    Adult Literacy in the United States (Data Point 2019-179)
  
•    Adult Literacy in the United States (Data Point 2019-179)
  
•    Assessing the Economic Gains of Eradicating Illiteracy Nationally and Regionally in the United States (2020)
  
•    Assessing the Economic Gains of Eradicating Illiteracy... (2020)
  
•    Confusion and Nutritional Backlash From News Media Exposure to Contradictory Information About Carbohydrates and Dietary Fats
  
•    Fast Facts: Long-Term Trends in Reading and Mathematics Achievement
  
•    Five Takeaways from NUTRITION 2026
  
•    Highlights of the 2023 U.S. PIAAC Results (Cycle 2)
  
•    Highlights of the 2023 U.S. PIAAC Results (Cycle 2)
  
•    Highlights of the 2023 U.S. PIAAC Results; Adult Literacy League summary
  
•    How to Evaluate Sources
  
•    How to Know if a Source Is Credible
  
•    Improving K-12 STEM Education in the U.S. - What Factors Will Drive Success?
  
•    Increasing Interest and Awareness About Teaching in Science Undergraduates
  
•    NAEP Scores Decline in Reading and Math for 12th Graders
  
•    No Harm in Being Self-Corrective: Self-Criticism and Reform Intentions Increase Researchers' Epistemic Trustworthiness and Credibility in the Eyes of the Public
  
•    Science Literacy and Health Literacy: Rationales, Definitions, and Measurement
  
•    The Benefits of Admitting When You Don't Know
  
•    The Supply and Quality of STEM Teachers
  
•    What to Know About the Latest Declines in Student Scores on the Nation's Report Card
  
•    Worldwide Predictors of Science Literacy in Lower-Secondary Students: A TIMSS 2019 Analysis
  

Science Misinformation

•    Scope
  
•    Secondhand Smoke
  
•    "The Climate Debate" by Donald Rapp 2012 - An Excellent Addition to the Literature on the Climate Issue
  
•    'Wellness' Grifters' Snake Oil Imperils Animal and Public Health
  
•    1.6: Hypothesis, Theories, and Laws
  
•    3 levels of cherry picking in a single argument
  
•    A Guide to the Digital Services Act, the EU's Law to Rein in Big Tech
  
•    Absolute Versus Relative Risk - Making Sense of Media Stories
  
•    Antiscience Is an Existential Threat (Mann & Hotez)
  
•    ASCO Clinical Notice: Recommending Against Ivermectin and Fenbendazole for Cancer Treatment, Outside of Clinical Trials
  
•    Brazil's Bolsonaro Faces Questioning in Fake Vaccine Card Investigation
  
•    Causation vs Correlation
  
•    Common Ancestry: AP Biology Review
  
•    Defining and Measuring Scientific Misinformation (The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science)
  
•    Did CDC Report 'Majority' of People Who Contracted COVID-19 Wore Masks?
  
•    Disinformation Climate Action and Health: Why This Feels Like Tobacco All Over Again
  
•    Donald Rapp (tag archive)
  
•    Donald Rapp (tag archive)
  
•    Donald Rapp - Profile
  
•    Donald Rapp - Profile
  
•    Doubt Is Their Product
  
•    EU Dials Up Attention on Larger Platforms Over Data Access for Risk Research
  
•    EV: The Climate Debate with Don Rapp
  
•    Evidence for Evolution
  
•    Expression of Concern
  
•    Fake Cures and Vaccine Passports for Sale (see above)
  
•    Fake Cures and Vaccine Passports for Sale: The Conspiracy Communities in Brazil Monetising the Anti-Vax Movement
  
•    Fractured Reality: How Algorithms Fuel Polarisation and Affect Democracy
  
•    Fred Singer
  
•    From tobacco to climate change, 'merchants of doubt' undermined the science
  
•    Global Fact-Checking Network
  
•    International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN)
  
•    Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Caltech Research
  
•    Merchants of Doubt — summarized in American Scientist 'Manufactured Ignorance'
  
•    Misinformation as Strategy: Epistemic Consequences and the Undermining of Shared Truth
  
•    Misinformation as Strategy: Epistemic Consequences and the Undermining of Shared Truth
  
•    Misleading Gun-Death Chart Draws Fire
  
•    Nearly Every Element in Your Body Except Hydrogen Was Forged by Stars
  
•    Poynter Institute
  
•    Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients
  
•    Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients
  
•    Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients
  
•    Real-World Clinical Outcomes of Ivermectin and Mebendazole in Cancer Patients: Results from a Prospective Observational Cohort
  
•    Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU's Digital Services Act
  
•    SciCheck
  
•    SciCheck
  
•    Science at Multiple Levels
  
•    Science Feedback (About)
  
•    Science Feedback (About)
  
•    Scientific Consensus: Earth's Climate Is Warming
  
•    Signatory Directory
  
•    Soil, Weedkillers And GMOs: When Numbers Don't Tell The Whole Story
  
•    Spurious Correlation, Statistical Fallacies and Misinformation: The Case of Vaccines and Autism
  
•    Statistics for Journalists: Understanding What Effect Size Means
  
•    The Climate Debate by Donald Rapp
  
•    The EU Digital Services Act: A Win for Transparency
  
•    The European Union's Digital Services Act: A New Era for the Internet?
  
•    The Spread of True and False News Online (Vosoughi, Roy & Aral, 2018)
  
•    The Unfinished Reconstructed Nature of the Last Universal Common Ancestor
  
•    The Wellness Industry Is Killing Animals Spreading Disease and Fueling the Next Pandemic
  
•    Time to Wake Up: Climate Denial Recalls Tobacco Racketeering
  
•    Tobacco industry playbook
  
•    Truncating the Y-Axis: Threat or Menace?
  
•    Tucker Carlson Distorts New CDC Report Makes False Mask Claim
  
•    Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science
  
•    Understanding the EU's Digital Services Act Enforcement Against X
  
•    Viral Posts Misuse VAERS Data to Make False Claims About COVID-19 Vaccines
  
•    What Is Stellar Nucleosynthesis? How Every Atom in Your Body Was Forged in a Star
  
•    What to Know About Ivermectin
  
•    When Bad Science Wins, or 'I'll See It When I Believe It'
  

Science Policy

•    AAAS Mass Media Fellows Embed in Newsrooms Return as Science Communicators
  
•    Doubt Is Their Product
  
•    Ensuring Free Immediate and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research
  
•    KFF/The Washington Post Survey of Parents: Polling Insights on the MAHA Movement
  
•    MAHA Report
  
•    MAHA, Medicine, and Mistrust
  
•    Media Literacy Index 2026: Denmark Finland Ireland and Netherlands Lead European Ranking of Resilience against Disinformation
  
•    New Poll: Public Confidence in CDC for Vaccine Advice Tumbles
  
•    NIH 2023 Data Management and Sharing Policy (DMS Policy)
  
•    ScienceAdviser: Fake Citations Plague MAHA Report
  
•    See the alarming extent of NIH and NSF funding cuts in 2025
  
•    Silencing Science Tracker
  
•    States Adopt Dangerous Legal Reforms Undercutting Public Health Emergency Powers
  
•    Texas board rejects many science textbooks over climate change messaging
  
•    The Pollution Playbook: How Industry Blocks Regulation of Toxic Chemicals
  
•    Understanding NIH's ClinicalTrials.gov Registration and Reporting Policy
  

Vaccines

•    "The Dose Makes the Poison": Relevance of Paracelsus's Principle for Modern Chemical Hazard Assessment
  
•    A Guide to Vaccine Ingredients
  
•    A Large Study Provides More Evidence That MMR Vaccines Don't Cause Autism
  
•    A Preservative Removed From Childhood Vaccines 20 Years Ago Is Still Causing Controversy Today
  
•    About Measles
  
•    About the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
  
•    Aluminum Adjuvants slide presentation
  
•    Brain Study Suggests Autism Starts Before Birth
  
•    Brighton Collaboration
  
•    Canadian Adverse Events Following Immunization Surveillance System (CAEFISS)
  
•    Causality assessment of adverse events reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
  
•    Cochrane (organization overview)
  
•    Common Ingredients in FDA-Approved Vaccines
  
•    Confronting Smallpox: How an Enslaved Man Helped Spur the First US Vaccine Study
  
•    Contribution of Vaccination to Improved Survival and Health: Modelling 50 Years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
  
•    Could not independently confirm VAERS as the specific detection mechanism in this research pass
  
•    COVID-19 Vaccine Basics
  
•    COVID-19 Vaccine Basics
  
•    Development, Approval and Safety Monitoring
  
•    Do Adults Need a Measles Booster? An Epidemiologist Explains Who Is Immune
  
•    Early Smallpox Vaccine Is Tested
  
•    Evaluation of Thimerosal Removal on Immunogenicity of Aluminum Salts Adjuvanted Recombinant Hepatitis B Vaccine
  
•    Falling Vaccine Coverage Threatens a Surge in Preventable Diseases
  
•    FDA Reverses Course, Will Review Moderna's mRNA Flu Vaccine
  
•    Forgotten Propaganda about Vaccine Hot Lots
  
•    Fraudulent Lancet MMR vaccine-autism report
  
•    Fraudulent Lancet MMR vaccine-autism report
  
•    From Design to Clinical Use: mRNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases and Cancer
  
•    From Design to Clinical Use: mRNA Vaccines for Infectious Diseases and Cancer
  
•    From Pandemic Innovation to Platform Diversification: A Systematic Review of Clinical and Preclinical Development of Non-SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccines
  
•    Generative Artificial Intelligence-Driven Chatbots and Medical Misinformation: An Accuracy, Referencing and Readability Audit (Tiller et al., 2026)
  
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•    Global Immunization Efforts Have Saved at Least 154 Million Lives Over the Past 50 Years
  
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•    Measles (Fact Sheet)
  
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•    Measles Resurgence in the United States
  
•    Measles Resurgence in the United States: Epidemiological and Clinical Observations from 2025
  
•    Measles Resurgence in the United States: Epidemiological and Clinical Observations from 2025
  
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•    Moderna Announces First Made-in-Canada mRNA Vaccines Delivered to Canadian Provinces and Territories
  
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•    mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 - How Do They Work?
  
•    mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 - How Do They Work?
  
•    mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 - How Do They Work?
  
•    mRNA Vaccines for COVID-19 - How Do They Work?
  
•    National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
  
•    National Safety Monitoring of Vaccines From CAEFISS, 2018-2019
  
•    Natural Immunity
  
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•    Smallpox: Variolation
  
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•    Straight to the Point: Targeted mRNA-Delivery to Immune Cells for Improved Vaccine Design
  
•    Straight to the Point: Targeted mRNA-Delivery to Immune Cells for Improved Vaccine Design
  
•    Study Finds AI Chatbots Are Vulnerable to Spreading Malicious, False Health Information
  
•    The Application of mRNA Technology for Vaccine Production - Current State of Knowledge
  
•    The Application of mRNA Technology for Vaccine Production - Current State of Knowledge
  
•    The Future of mRNA Vaccines Beyond COVID-19
  
•    The Resurgence of Vaccine Preventable Infections: Measles and Pertussis
  
•    Thimerosal and Vaccines
  
•    Thimerosal and Vaccines
  
•    Thimerosal and Vaccines
  
•    Thimerosal and Vaccines
  
•    Thimerosal and Vaccines - A Cautionary Tale
  
•    Types of Vaccine Ingredients
  
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•    Understanding Current U.S. Measles Outbreaks and Elimination Status
  
•    Update: Myocarditis and Pericarditis Following mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination — 2021
  
•    Vaccine Tracker
  
•    VAERS – Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System
  
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•    What VAERS Can and Can't Do...
  
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