“Science is the father of knowledge,” Hippocrates famously wrote, “but opinion breeds ignorance.” Nearly 2 ½ millennia after the father of Western medicine offered that insight, science and opinion ...

A landmark Center for Public Integrity series illuminating the troubling impact of distorted, industry-supported science has been honored by the National Association of Science Writers. The project, ...

When I last wrote about the perception of scientists being paid for their conclusions, it was with the tongue-in-cheek observation that perhaps Massachusetts, by seeking to end the practice, might ...

David Heath on the Environment team gave birth this week a story more than a year in the making and based on analysis of tens of thousands of documents. Like tobacco litigation, his work on the health ...

2001-12-16 04:00:00 PDT New York-- Left unsaid in the fierce debate over stem cell research is the fact that President Bush's policy gives researchers carte blanche when the science is funded by ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Daniel Greenberg is a well-known investigative reporter of science, and his current book deals with bitter and divisive controversies over the role of research universities in societal and commercial ...

A landmark Center for Public Integrity series illuminating the troubling impact of distorted, industry-supported science has been honored by the National Association of Science Writers. The project, ...

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Of all the black eyes the Merck pharmaceutical company has inflicted upon itself, the biggest shiner yet may come from new allegations in the current Journal of the American Medical Association. Two ...