All science & democracy resources
Video
Use Your Scientific Expertise to Make a Safer and Healthier World
Submitting a public comment to the record is an important way to make your voice heard in the policymaking process.
Video
How to Counter Disinformation
Learn how to spot disinformation and stop it in its tracks.
Podcast
How Digital Disinformation Targets Voters
Technology innovator Shireen Mitchell discusses pervasive disinformation on social media centered around US elections, and how we can fight back.
Report
Achieving Multiracial, Multiparty Democracy
A task force of activists, organizers, and scholars lay out six key recommendations for safeguarding our democracy.
Activist Resource
Communicating Science
Since its founding, the Union of Concerned Scientists has been a leader in science and technology communication. We’ve worked with thousands of researchers and academics to help them make their work more accessible to lay audiences.
Activist Resource
What You Can Do about Disinformation
Know how to identify it, counter it, and stop it in its tracks.
Explainer
How to Stop Disinformation
Our recommendations for stopping the spread of disinformation
Explainer
How to Spot Disinformation
Understanding how to identify disinformation is crucial to shutting it down.
Explainer
Is Disinformation the Same as Misinformation?
They’re not the same. One happens by accident. The other is deliberate–often strategic.
Podcast
Fighting Disinformation
Communications strategist Sabrina Joy Stevens shares practical tips for shutting down disinformation online.
Podcast
Fighting Voter Suppression
Dr. Adrienne Jones discusses efforts to limit voter access in Georgia, and how we can all fight back, no matter what state we live in.
Activist Resource
1992 World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
This appeal, written in November 1992, was the World Scientists' Warning to Humanity and was written and spearheaded by the late Henry Kendall, former chair of UCS's board of directors.