Footnotes News in Brief Synthesizing the News The Leader of One of America’s Biggest Science Agencies Just Signed a ‘No-Manels’ Pledge National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins joins men from many fields, both in the sciences and beyond. Francie Diep
News in Brief Meet the Doctor Who Gave $1 Million of His Own Money to Keep His Gun Research Going Since Congress pressured the CDC to stop funding research on gun violence, Dr. Garen Wintemute has donated more than $1.1 million of his own money to keep his research going. Lois Beckett
Social Justice We Don’t Know What to Eat How bad science created a misinformed national diet—and did nothing to slow the growth of obesity. Aaron Gordon