The findings in Digging Up Trouble by the Union of Concerned Scientists are unreliable and based on flawed methodology and analysis.

The inherent conflict of science and politics will be the subject of the second-annual "Bloody Crossroads" conference at AEI.

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:...

Has the threat of global warming and soaring fossil fuel costs changed the prospects for nuclear energy? Advocates stress its potential cost-effectiveness and the coming generation of safe, efficient plants. Critics maintain that efficiency is a mirage and that environmental uncertainties remain. While technological advances have made nuclear power plants...

President Bush is widely expected to propose new environmental initiatives in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, January 23, 2007, and AEI scholars are available for comment.

This incisive volume considers the impact of precautionary standards on international food security policies and explores its possible unintended consequences--including environmental degradation, the spread of disease, and a hungrier world.

The costs to society - economically and socially - from setting policies based on fear rather than science are significant. The fear of synthetic chemicals diverts our focus and drains public funds from addressing documented dangers.

Within a few years of Stalin's rise to power, Nikolai Vavilov's work fell victim to the general politicization of science in the Soviet Union.