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 ...

“The Ruthless Politicization of Science Funding” by Robert P. George and Anna I. Krylov (The Chronicle Review, July 25) outlines a distorted and dystopian caricature of how federal agencies support ...

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 ...