Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

It’s terrible. It’s a scandal. It’s also nonsense. The study was junk science — data manipulated to produce a divisive and partisan narrative. Yet you’d think otherwise, given how the ...

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“One of the worst manifestations of the intersection of junk science and bad policing”, in addition to its utter lack of “common sense and humanity”. The trend towards data heavy systems ...

Trial lawyers, especially defense lawyers in the pharmaceutical and medical device arena, strive to ensure that “junk science” stays out of the courtroom. Unfortunately, that is often wishful ...

Here, we highlight a few “worst of the worst” offenders when it comes to junk science. We lead with a decision from years past—likely familiar to the reader, as the issue (whether vaccines ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Such forms of law enforcement featured, in the view of criminologist David Kennedy of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, "One of the worst manifestations of the intersection of junk science and ...