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COVID-19 illuminates the crucial role scientists at university, state, and local laboratories in the United States and abroad play in protecting public health and safety. With this in mind, today we published a free resource for scientists that describes how these institutions generally structure their scientific integrity policies, what the policies cover, and the processes for enforcing them.

President Trump's ongoing war on science has significantly weakened researchers’ ability to respond to COVID-19 and other public health and environmental crises.

In addition to our regular monthly update, we want to share how COVID-19 has changed the way we work.

The administration's handling of the pandemic violates key scientific integrity principles. As a result, science is undermined and our health is at risk.

The proposed changes, announced by President Trump on January 9, would cut scientists’ voices out of this environmental review process.

The guides will help researchers understand their employer’s policy and navigate the process of filing a scientific integrity complaint.

Find out about our work at the February Ocean Science Meeting, learn about the 388 government attacks on science we've documented, and more.

Dr. George Luber alleges that CDC officials prohibited him from communicating with the press about his work, and prohibited him from participating in a conference on climate change and health.

We published the second edition of “Research Protections in Open Records Laws: An Analysis and Ranking,” join us and the ACLU for a workshop at the AGU Fall Meeting, and more.

One of the most pernicious, ongoing anti-science actions is the abuse of state open records laws to target state university researchers and other publicly-funded scientists.

We took a look at science under the first 1,000 days of Trump, we're countering the White House's attack on science advice, and more.

Under Trump, the federal government has attacked science 249 times—or roughly once every four days since the November 2016 elections.