Science & Democracy Resources

With big budgets and deceptive advertising practices, sugar interests target vulnerable audiences and turn misinformation into profit.

Evidence in a recent federal district court case, Western Sugar Cooperative et al. v. Archer Daniels Midland et al providing insight into strategies sugar interests have used to mislead the public and prevent science-based policies on sugar.

This report shows how sugar interests use a variety of tactics to prevent science-based policy on sugar.

UCS has assembled a timeline of events, editorial comments and statements from scientists, academics and other groups related to Cuccinelli’s demand.

Over the past decade, the House Science Committee has called more industry witnesses and fewer independent scientists to its hearings.

The 2014 Lewis M. Branscomb Forum brought together experts, advocates, and engaged community members to explore how science can help advance healthier food environments.

A long history of sidelining science took a turn for the better when Hoboken's leaders decided to take an evidence-based approach in responding to 2012's Hurricane Sandy.

Communities need reliable information to make good decisions about hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and other unconventional oil and gas development technologies.

Food safety disasters like the Listeria outbreak of 2011 are more common than they should be.

The 2013 Lewis M. Branscomb Forum convened big thinkers from academia, industry, government, non-governmental organizations, and citizen groups to delve into some of the most complex challenges around fracking.

UCS's 2013 report, Grading Government Transparency, looks at policies governing scientists' communications through traditional and social media at 17 federal agencies.