An approaching cyber storm—one capable of unleashing unprecedented chaos—is looming on the horizon of the United States’ public and private sectors. Although experts warn that attackers are poised to ...

Hackers don’t always steal data. Sometimes the goal is to manipulate the data to intentionally trigger external events that can be capitalized on. Conventional wisdom says that once an attacker is in ...

We would like to believe that most retractions are due to honest errors. But a new paper found that most retractions in chemistry and similar fields are due to actions that are much worse. However, ...

The high-profile retractions of two COVID-19 studies stunned the scientific community earlier this year and prompted calls for reviews of how science is conducted, published, and acted upon. The ...

*A December 14 report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform alleges that outgoing D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith deliberately pressured her commanders to manipulate crime ...

Climate researchers have discovered that NASA researchers improperly manipulated data in order to claim 2005 as “THE WARMEST YEAR ON RECORD.” KUSI-TV meteorologist, Weather Channel founder, and iconic ...

Alzheimer’s disease research has had a tumultuous year. First, patients finally got a new treatment when the FDA approved Biogen’s Aduhelm, setting off a chorus of criticism and challenges for the ...

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Rep. Gary Palmer falsely claimed on a radio show that temperature data used to measure global climate change have been “falsified” and manipulated. Palmer, a Republican from Alabama, cited the ...