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Rectangular photo of Charles Piller’s office bookshelf showing works on topics that include Alzheimer’s Disease, the Theranos scandal, unsafe manufacturing of generic medications, bias and fraud in medical research, and gene splicing, along with one of Piller’s own previous books, The Fail-Safe Society. Photo credit: Charles Piller.

Charles Piller—Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's

Fraud in science and medicine erodes trust in these fields, harms patients and families, delays effective treatment, and wastes vast sums. In Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's, Charles Piller exposes false data in 100s of Alzheimer’s research papers and explores the path forward. He won CASW’s 2025 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting.

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Networking social: Institutional communicators meetup

The Institutional Communicators Committee invites all institutional communicators for an informal meetup to chat about our plans for the new year and connect over our shared goals and challenges. We’re excited to continue building this vital community in 2026; come say hello!

Rectangular photo of Bethann Garramon Merkle’s office bookshelf showing an eclectic mix of books on science communication, writing, poetry, collage art, feminism, burnout, and happiness. Photo credit: Bethann Garramon Merkle

Bethann Garramon Merkle (NASW member) and Stephen B. Heard—Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach

“Writing is hard. Teaching and mentoring writing often is even harder. It doesn’t have to be,” Bethann Garramon Merkle and Stephen Heard assert in Teaching and Mentoring Writers in the Sciences: An Evidence-Based Approach. Students need writing skills they can use over their entire careers, the authors say. They offer teachers a well-stocked toolbox of tactics to help students achieve that goal.

Rectangular photo of Jim Morris’ office bookshelf showing a small sample of the thousands of legal, medical, and other documents he used to write The Cancer Factory. Photo credit: Jim Morris.

Jim Morris—The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers

Cancer and other work-related illnesses take 120,000 lives in the U.S. annually, Jim Morris writes in The Cancer Factory: Industrial Chemicals, Corporate Deception, and the Hidden Deaths of American Workers, NASW’s 2025 Science in Society Book Award winner. Workers are mostly on their own, he says. Workplace safety varies. OSHA’s ineffectual. Physicians often fail to ask patients what work they do.

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