The Trump administration says it's returning U.S. science to a golden era. Critics say it's tarnished by political agendas.

Once upon a time, you could reach into your wallet, pull out paper money known as a gold certificate and ask your bank teller to please redeem its value in gold. The advantage to such a system? It was ...

In 1879, the United States formally adopted the gold standard, backing every U.S. dollar with a fixed amount of gold held in reserve. This created a hard, objective anchor for the dollar’s value – one ...

The gold standard. Today, the term denotes something that is the highest level of quality in its category. Gold, with all its luster, has been sought after, fought over and prized for thousands of ...

A gold standard would do wonders for economic growth, but would almost certainly not limit the growth of our federal government. The view that it would insults markets at least three times, but ...

When President Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, he declared ...

EXCLUSIVE: The White House Office of Science and Technology on Monday directed federal agencies to implement "gold standard science" principles to depoliticize science and restore public trust, Fox ...

Did you catch Warren Buffett’s retirement warning? “Obviously, we wouldn’t want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to hell,” Buffett said. “There could be ...

Orders the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP Director) to issue guidance for agencies on implementation of “Gold Standard Science” in the conduct and management of their ...

Kevin Dayaratna, PhD., is a chief statistician, data scientist, and senior research fellow in The Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis. “[W]here any type of ‘scientific evidence’ is used to ...