Union of Concerned Scientists

by Skip KaltenheuserAllow me to introduce a friend, Elliott Negin, who writes for the Union of Concerned Scientists.

People hold signs as they listen to a group of scientists speak during a rally in conjunction with the American Geophysical Union’s fall meeting in San Francisco. (AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
(REPORT) — The Trump-Pence administration’s war on facts may have galvanized the next major demonstration in the nation’s capital—the Scientists’ March on Washington, which is as yet unscheduled but is garnering significant enthusiasm online.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls on a reporter during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. Spicer answered questions about the Dakota Pipeline, infrastructure, jobs and other topics. (AP/Susan Walsh)

20 American academics think unorthodox climate views should be subjected to an organized crime investigation.

By Jonathan Latham, PhD Pretty much every branch of the US government has had trouble implementing President Obama’s flagship scientific integrity policy. In 2011, the US Department of the Interior (DOI) appointed the scientist Dr. Paul Houser to be its first ever Officer of Scientific Integrity. Within a year he ...

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UN officials need to stop dressing up political arguments as science.

By Sherwood Ross | October 26, 2013

At a time when a record 47-million Americans live in poverty, when cities are going bankrupt, when 10 million jobless can’t find work and millions more are too discouraged to look, when the infrastructure is crumbling, when schools are running down, when bridges,roads and water mains need urgent repair, and when the AP reports four out of five Americans are in the financial soup, President Obama’s plan to spend $60 billion to refurbish an aging nuclear weapons arsenal is an obscene waste of tax dollars.