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Top scientific journal Nature has “abandoned science for social justice”, Richard Dawkins has said as he backed a letter written by Chemistry Professor Anna Krylov which accused the journal of “social engineering”...

Ed Miliband’s move to bring forward ban is gambit to stop would-be Reform voters from backing Nigel Farage’s pro-fracking party

Indigenous traditions deserve respect but they must be held to the same rigorous standard as other bodies of knowledge. Some ‘ancient wisdom’ is has proved to be genuinely valuable, while other claims lack scientific...

Shift from fossil fuels could lower deaths from particle pollution in some states by 19% in five years, study finds

Researchers also suggest system could resolve problems with irregular and weather-dependent Earth-based supply

Churning quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere at the rate we are going could lead the planet to another Great Dying

Villainizing HFCS is an outgrowth of the more general War on Sugar. Acting under the pretense (or misunderstanding) that HFCS is “high” in fructose, a great deal of research has been carried out to study the results of...

Although the trends can be hard to perceive, we are making incredible progress on global poverty, health, longevity and climate change

"High-fructose corn syrup ‘is just a formula for making you obese and diabetic,’ RFK Jr. has said." [ source ] That’s the narrative in the Wild and Wacky World of Nutrition. It is based on the ever-present, ubiquitous,...

Does poverty cause crime? Or does crime cause poverty? Or do they feed off one other in a vicious cycle? Or does another factor or a combination of other factors cause both poverty and crime?

The path forward is clear: federal agencies must adopt rigorous, transparent and falsifiable standards to ensure that science serves truth, not power. Critics may decry the order as political overreach, but their protests...

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has promised £14bn of investment to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant, kicking off what the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, says will be a ‘golden age for clean energy abundance’...

“It is galling that the leadership of the institution makes that kind of money,” says one senior program officer with a decade of experience at the institution...

There is nothing out of the ordinary in the order to those immersed in the traditional scientific process and without an ideological axe to grind. But in the climate sphere it is likely to spike the guns of a number of activists...

With this action, the United States reasserts itself as a leader not just in scientific capability, but in scientific integrity. The Gold Standard is more than a label. It is now the law.