Scientific Integrity

Former CDC officials Dan Jernigan, Deb Houry, and Demetre Daskalakis smile as employees and supporters of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) line up outside the CDC global headquarters to honor the three leaders who resigned in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of CDC director Susan Monarez, on August 28, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia.

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August 29, 2025

What Happens When Facts Don’t Matter? We’re about to Find out

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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August 28, 2025

How RFK Jr. Dismantled Trust in Public Health: A Student’s Warning for the Future

UCS Science Network

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August 25, 2025

With New Guidance, Trump Administration Deceptively Targets Scientific Integrity

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

People holding signs rally in front of the Washington Monument in DC. One sign reads "Science Saves Lives"; another says "Fire DOGE, not me"

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August 14, 2025

Scientists’ Role in Defending Democracy

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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August 14, 2025

Ask a Scientist: How Does Documenting Attacks on Science Stop Authoritarians?

Guest Commentary

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August 13, 2025

Trump Admin Uses Fossil Fuel Industry Deception Tactics to Undermine Climate Science

Carlos Javier Martinez
Senior Scientist

A gas flare from the Shell Chemical LP petroleum refinery illuminates the sky in Norco, Louisiana, part of the state's "cancer alley" where refineries and other petrochemical facilities are concentrated.

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August 4, 2025

My Petrochemical Jobs Study Triggered Tulane University’s Audacious Attack on Science

UCS Science Network

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July 24, 2025

From the Courtroom to the Internet, the Fight Over Federal Science Is On

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

At a 2025 Stand up for Science rally in Boston, a person holds a sign reading "Evidence-Based Outrage"

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July 21, 2025

Six Months in, UCS Is in the Fight for the Long Haul

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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July 21, 2025

New UCS Analysis Documents Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions

Darya Minovi
Senior Analyst

a view of the White House from the National Mall.

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June 30, 2025

Schedule F by Another Name Is Still a Threat to Science

Joseph Reed
Policy Director, Center for Science and Democracy

The front façade of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC.

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June 26, 2025

We Need Sound Policy Informed by Science. The Trump Administration Is Undermining It.

Gretchen Goldman
President of UCS

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June 23, 2025

OSTP Has a Choice to Make: Science or Politics?

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

President Trump, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and other administration officials sit at a table in the White House.

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June 12, 2025

Science Under Fire in Washington

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

a woman in a lab coat conducts a scientific test outdoors.

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June 5, 2025

Fool’s Gold: The Trump Administration’s New Executive Order Is a Bad-Faith Attack on Science

Kristie Ellickson
Senior Scientist

three scientists in goggles and lab coats conduct experiments.

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May 29, 2025

Trump’s Executive Order Puts Science Under the Thumb of Politics

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

Omari Spears/UCS

April 17, 2025

Dear Climate Movement: They’ve Come for Our Climate Science. We Have to Stop Them.

Erika Spanger
Director of Strategic Climate Analytics

An American flag with binary code superimposed over it.

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April 9, 2025

Keeping Track: Mapping the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Science and Health

Jennifer Jones
Program Director, Center for Science & Democracy

A woman in a lab coat standing in a room full of computers

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April 2, 2025

A Backward March: Another Month of Attacks on Federal Science

Jules Barbati-Dajches
Analyst

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April 1, 2025

Trump’s NIH Ditches Its Scientific Integrity Policy. That’s Bad News for Public Trust in Government Science

Liz Borkowski
Science Network Contributor

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March 17, 2025

Why I Don’t Buy Data Centers’ Claims They Can Leapfrog Over Utilities

Mike Jacobs
Senior Energy Analyst

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March 5, 2025

Musk Is Pushing the Great American Innovation Machine to the Brink

Julie McNamara
Associate Director, Policy for Climate and Energy

a cloud of smoke seen from a neighborhood in East Palestine, Ohio after a train derailment.

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February 20, 2025

How Scientific Integrity Could Have Prevented the East Palestine Train Disaster

Lisa Van Theemsche
Washington Representative II

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February 13, 2025

President Trump and Musk’s Onslaught Reminds Me of Brazil’s Dictatorship

Astrid Caldas
Senior Climate Scientist