The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., say they want the government to ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. America is in the midst of an epistemological crisis, one most visible and ...

A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists. By Pam Belluck The ...