Admit it: You hold a few contradictory beliefs—maybe more than a few. We all do. Many of them we aren’t even aware of, and the reason we aren’t aware of them has to do with the way our brains process, ...

One of the many political controversies surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 was U.S. President Donald Trump's repeated touting of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for treatment of the ...

Maintaining transparency and candor with the USPTO is paramount. Failure to do so can have serious consequences, including a finding of inequitable conduct. Inequitable conduct is a form of fraud ...

Protesters descended on the seat of government in 2017 to demand former South African president Jacob Zuma resign. EFE-EPA/Kim Ludbrook How do South Africans view democracy? Are they in the camp of ...

Your recent Editorial (Nature 439, 117–118; 2006) bemoans the recurring subject of ethics and fraud in scientific research. I contend that many journals contribute to the prevalence of bad science, ...