To the Editor — Looking back, the initial spread of COVID-19 in early 2020 illustrates that clinicians, epidemiologists and behavioral scientists around the world greatly underestimated the scope and ...

Freedom of Science in America There is a present danger that American research may be stifled. In technical skill and inventiveness the United States has been pre-eminent; but for basic research in ...

Scientists like to proclaim that science knows no borders. Scientific researchers follow the evidence where it leads, their conclusions free of prejudice or ideology. But is that really the case? In ...

Though the Cold War ended long ago, the language of science and freedom continues to shape public debates over the relationship between science and politics in the United States. From the late 1940’s ...

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