Opinion: Firing science for politics — why RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine experts endangers us all

This is not a routine leadership change. It’s a calculated dismantling of a public health institution that RFK Jr. pledged to protect. Read More

Trump's science cuts are great news - for other countries | Opinion

Trump's 2026 budget includes the biggest cuts for scientific research in decades. Here's why that's a terrible idea. Read More

Opinion: A judge just took Trump to task for his attack on science

In some quarters, science has a bad name. Some children, from their first exposure to courses in biology, chemistry, or physics, are intimidated by their quantitative focus or turned off by what they ... Read More

Trump’s All-Out Assault on Science Constitutes a “Mind-Boggling Own-Goal”

Its meddling and arbitrary cuts to staff, programs, and grants are killing an engine of American greatness, insiders say. Read More

Vatican defends science from politics, ideology and misinformation

(RNS) — Around the world, we are “witnessing an alarming rise in attempts to discredit, politicize or suppress scientific knowledge,” the Vatican says in a new (June 16) Pontifical Academy of Sciences ... Read More

My 5-year-old survived cancer twice. Medical innovation shouldn't be political. | Opinion

An mRNA-based diagnostic test is being developed that could catch cancers earlier, when they're more treatable. But this innovation is under threat. Read More