[Correspondence] Safeguarding research integrity: SAGER guidelines, research ethics, and the politics of evidence

00:00 - 28 Nov 2025

The current sociopolitical climate has made science a contested terrain. Polemical rhetoric and attempts to subordinate science to ideology are not only compromising research integrity, but also eroding public trust.1 Gender is central to these contestations: efforts to erase, ignore, and deny identities or politicise gender scholarship undermine scientific accuracy and accountability. Sex and gender, which defy binaries, shape risk exposure, disease manifestation, health-care access, and outcomes.