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  • Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP): Critical appraisal skills enable one to systematically assess the trustworthiness, relevance and results of published papers.
  • Centre for Evidence Based Medicine (CEBM): They are a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the practice, teaching and dissemination of high quality evidence based medicine to improve healthcare in everyday clinical practice.
  • Cochrane Collaboration: Their mission is to promote evidence-informed health decision-making by producing high-quality, relevant, accessible systematic reviews and other synthesized research evidence.
  • Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)They aim to establish core practices in research, the policies and practices journals and publishers need to reach the highest standards in publication ethics.
  • Healthy Skepticism: Their main aim is improving health by reducing harm from misleading health information.
  • NOAA’s Scientific Integrity Commons: A place for NOAA’s scientific community to find resources such as relevant policies, frequently asked questions about science, and links to external training on scientific integrity.
  • Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions: The Poynter Project began as a reaction to Americans’ perceptions of their government as the Watergate scandal unfolded in the early 1970s and seeks funding to focus on the declining trust in public institutions.
  • Sense about Science: They challenge the misrepresentation of science and evidence in public life and intervene – often in partnership with others – to hold those responsible to account.
  • The Center for Science in the Public Interest: The Center for Science in the Public Interest is a user advocacy organization whose missions are to conduct innovative research and advocacy programs in health and nutrition, and to provide users with current, useful information about their health and well-being.
  • United States Geological Survey: The Office of Science Quality and Integrity: Scientific integrity is maintained when all adhere to professional values and practices when conducting and applying the results of science and scholarship that ensures objectivity, clarity, and reproducibility, and that provides insulation from bias, fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, outside interference, and censorship.