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Opinion: Biological Science Rejects the Sex Binary, and That’s Good for Humanity
Agustín Fuentes | May 12, 2022 | 5 min read
Evidence from various sciences reveals that there are diverse ways of being male, female, or both. An anthropologist argues that embracing these truths will help humans flourish.
Science Policy Should Be Independent Of Political And Ideological Concerns
Kenneth Goodman | Mar 3, 1991 | 4 min read
A half-century ago, United States Gen. George V. Strong wrote a letter denying Albert Einstein a security clearance to work on the Manhattan Project. The general apparently based his decision on allegations that the physicist was an "extreme radical" and would be a security risk. He was neither of these. Nevertheless, he was at the center of the most striking effort to smuggle ideology into science in U.S. history. Unfortunately, the practice seems to persist. The Bush administration last year
The Second March for Science a Smaller Affair
Jim Daley, Ashley Yeager, and Shawna Williams | Apr 14, 2018 | 3 min read
Many cities around the globe, including Washington, DC, saw shrunken crowd sizes, and numerous events turned into rallies rather than processions.
Science Envoy Resigns from US State Department in Protest
Catherine Offord | Aug 23, 2017 | 2 min read
Energy researcher Daniel Kammen criticized President Trump’s response to events in Charlottesville, as well as the administration’s decision to leave the Paris Climate Accord.
Opinion: Misguided Science Policy?
Andrew R. Binder, Dietram A. Scheufele, and Dominique Brossard | Apr 10, 2012 | 3 min read
The pitfalls of using public meetings as surrogate gauges of public opinion
Debt Ceiling Bill May Hurt Science
Tia Ghose | Aug 2, 2011 | 5 min read
The bill to raise the debt ceiling and reduce the deficit would slash billions of dollars for basic scientific and medical research.
Opinion: Rebuffing RAS Reform
Victoria Doronina | Sep 19, 2013 | 3 min read
On the impending changes to the Russian Academy of Sciences
Science and Politics: Don't Give Up
Richard Gallagher(rgallagher@the-scientist.com) | Jan 30, 2005 | 2 min read
Many scientists in the United States who staunchly opposed a second presidential term for George W. Bush were probably in a somewhat less-than-festive mood during the inauguration in Washington earlier this month.
Creation Of Sound Science Policy Hindered By Budget Debates
Rep. George Brown | Apr 13, 1997 | 7 min read
For too long, national debates on science and technology (S&T) policy have been conducted as a footnote to budget debates. Nagging and important issues, fundamental to the conduct and future of our national research and development (R&D) enterprise, have been left to languish while Congress debates artful accounting exercises that do not pencil out, budgets that are really Trojan horses for someone's ideological social blueprints, or "feel-good" proposals to increase spending on R&D
WHO Leads in Using Solid Science to Draft COVID-19 Policy: Study
Max Kozlov | Jan 8, 2021 | 5 min read
Governments are variable in their reliance on highly cited research, while international intergovernmental organizations such as the World Health Organization reliably link policy and science, according to an analysis of thousands of policy documents from the first half of 2020.

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