The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

With 100,000 patients dying every year from dangerous medicines, it is time to take concrete actions. Establishing a treaty against fake medicines should be the first step.

The FDA must continue to pressure Chinese authorities to test what is on the market and remove any substandard products found.

Al Armendariz, the top Environmental Protection Agency official in the oil-rich Southwest region, resigned from his post, effective Monday. It’s the latest twist in the never-ending and increasingly ugly fracking fracas. A two-year old video had surfaced last week (and since pulled) featuring Armendariz comparing his “philosophy of enforcement” to...

Jon Entine is available for comment on his book Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution?

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

This event will discuss the European Union's recent consensus to institute new criteria that could ultimately blacklist about fifteen percent of the EU pesticides market used by the agricultural and pest control industries.

Given the measured way in which the EPA has reversed many anti-science biases of the Bush administration, it's disturbing to read the broadside against chemicals in "Legally Poisoned," by UC Riverside professor Carl Cranor.