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EVENTS

Recent and upcoming speaking engagements

February 5, 2025: Science Magazine (private event)

February 5, 2025: Politics & Prose Bookstore, Washington DC, Connecticut Ave., in conversation with Jenn White, host of NPR’s 1A

February 8, 2025: Book Passage Bookstore, San Francisco, Ferry Building, in conversation with journalist and author Michael Castleman

February 10, 2025: Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, in conversation with Rachael Myrow, Senior Editor of KQED radio’s Silicon Valley News Desk

February 11, 2025: Harvard University Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (private event)

February 26, 2025: Association of Health Care Journalists Webinar

March 28, 2025: Cornell University, Seminar on Science Policy (private event)

April 2, 2025: Science Writers of the Rocky Mountains Webinar (private event)

April 7, 2025: Interintellect Salon

April 17, 2025: New York University Graduate Journalism School seminar (private event)

April 26, 2025: American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair Annual Conference

May 22, 2025: University of California Santa Cruz Science Communications Program (private event)

May 29, 2025: American Federation for Aging Research, The Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara

May 31, 2025: Association of Health Care Journalists annual conference

September 18, 2025: HealthCentral Editorial Seminar (private event)

September 25, 2025: ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Conference (private event)

September 27, 2025: Jackson Hole Book Festival, Snow King Hotel and Resort, Jackson Hole, Wyoming

October 23, 2025: Storer Lecture, UC Davis

December 3, 2025: World Conference of Science Journalists, Pretoria, South Africa

January 29, 2026: Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Webinar

April 16, 2026: MIT – Knight Journalism Program Public Lecture

April 27, 2026: University of California San Francisco – Synapse Speaker Series

April 30, 2026: Synapse: UCSF Student Voices eighth annual Science Speaker Series – Probing Science: Misconduct, Incentives and Trust

Articles

Selected articles

Alzheimer’s drug developers accuse clinical trial sites of faking data

T3D Therapeutics alleges that contract researchers delivered “medically impossible” results on its candidate drug
January 7, 2026 by Charles Piller

Picture imperfect

Scores of papers by Eliezer Masliah, prominent neuroscientist and top NIH official, fall under suspicion.
September 26, 2024 by Charles Piller

Whistleblowers and former lab members suggest star neuroscientist Berislav Zlokovic may have manipulated data that support a major stroke trial and important Alzheimer’s research.
November 13, 2023 by Charles Piller

Blots on a field?

A neuroscience image sleuth finds signs of fabrication in scores of Alzheimer’s articles, threatening a reigning theory of the disease.
July 21, 2022 by Charles Piller