Science is facing a severe crisis of credibility. While high-profile data fabrication makes the headlines, the real threat to public trust lies in a pervasive practice known as "tweaking." Professor Thomas Plümper (Head of Socioeconomics at Vienna University) and Professor Eric Neumayer (Deputy President of the London School of Economics) break down how the subtle manipulation of empirical data is damaging the scientific process and how academia can fix it.

5 minute read. "A superpower that once felt invulnerable must now reckon with adversaries that can drain its coffers, bleed its allies, and upend its strategic calculations," warns Brahma Chellaney of the Center for Policy Research, signaling that the era of cost-free US wars is definitively over.