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Science needs to reckon with the #MeToo moment, and it needs to do so immediately, says a new report from the prestigious National Academies of Sciences.

What can men do to become better allies for women and other minorities in science? This is the question cognitive scientist Iris van Rooij asked on Twitter. To her own surprise, the tweet went viral.

"If you [only] have products created by white guys in their 20s, you’re gonna miss the mark."

How Andrew Wakefield’s shoddy science fueled autism-vaccine fears.

The news that lifted our existential dread.

Don't be taken in by the memo’s faux-reasonable tone.

When the results of clinical trials aren’t made public, the consequences can be dangerous — and potentially deadly.

PubMed, the Google of scientific search, is now publishing funding information in its abstracts.

Patients in red states and blue states alike benefit from work funded by the National Institutes of Health

Simple: It’s mimicking us.

Some lessons from the health community’s long battle with misinformation.

This researcher wants to change that.

"Donald Trump is going to be the gateway drug for scientists being engaged in policy."

Government scientists are being ordered not to talk about their research — and it’s only week one.

Does that mean the original research was wrong? No. It means science is really, really hard.