The Editors highlight three aspects of OMB’s recently proposed rule changes as particularly striking: that decisions on research funding would be made by political appointees, that funding could ...

Nations around the world are currently considering a “Pandemic Agreement” that seeks to improve preparation for and response to disease outbreaks, drawing on the lessons of COVID-19. The agreement ...

American physician-scientist who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022 and served ...

Anthony Fauci is an American physician-scientist who led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 ...

Re: “The downside of climate lawsuits? Higher fuel costs” (July 19): The left’s politicization of science and climate change is getting more and more outrageous. Everyone should read “False Alarm: How ...

H ow should taxpayer money earmarked for science funding be used? This is a $90-billion-per-year question. The money is entrusted to federal funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation ...

Science and politics make strange bedfellows. In science, facts are reality. A noted TV commentator observed, “The measure of good science … is the immersion of hypotheses into the acid of truth.” In ...