Public Policy

1984 Is Knocking At The Door. Let It In
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April 18, 2014

1984 Is Knocking At The Door. Let It In

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Vote Yes (With Caveats!) for the Destruction of Knowledge
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April 15, 2014

Vote Yes (With Caveats!) for the Destruction of Knowledge

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Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal
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April 15, 2014

Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal

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Listen: ‘Thou Shalt Commit a Social Science’
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April 7, 2014

Listen: ‘Thou Shalt Commit a Social Science’

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UK Social Science Readies its Case Before 2015 Elections

UK Social Science Readies its Case Before 2015 Elections

A major new effort to present social science’s best evidence-based case for value and impact to British policymakers has been unveiled. In an interview with Social Science Space, the project’s chair discusses how backers hope it influences the public conversation before next year’s general election.

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Reviewer: Journal Wilts Under Climate of Intimidation

Reviewer: Journal Wilts Under Climate of Intimidation

As an echo of the latest just-released IPCC report on climate change, Elaine McKewon details how one journal blinked when climate change skeptics turned up the heat on an article exploring conspiracy ideation and the rejection of science.

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NSF Boss Finds Friendly Reception in Appropriations Panel

NSF Boss Finds Friendly Reception in Appropriations Panel

Concerns about Chinese advances and US education declines, not internecine disputes between academic disciplines, marked the Hill debut of the agency-requested budget for the National Science Foundation.

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Wanted: Crime-Fighting Profs to Nab Corporate Criminals

Wanted: Crime-Fighting Profs to Nab Corporate Criminals

Could it be that business studies is the new criminology? Given the hijinks we’ve seen in the financial world the last few years, Cardiff’s Mike Marinetto makes that case that it could be.

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NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

The Executive Branch’s proposed budget for NSF in the coming fiscal year will be presented to the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. A competing spending plan that would be markedly less friendly to social, behavioral and economic science is already circulating.

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Sequestering Speech: Stories of the Shutdown

Sequestering Speech: Stories of the Shutdown

Thousands of scientists across the US feel cutbacks are seriously restricting their research and contributions. Gretchen Goldman asks scientists for their reaction and about impact on their work

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The Day the Earth Moved: Canada’s Muzzled Researchers

The Day the Earth Moved: Canada’s Muzzled Researchers

Canadian scientists are being prevented by the state from discussing research findings in public, even about earthquakes in their backyard. Mark Frary reports

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Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

How concerned should the social science community be about the still substantial chunk of money missing from federal social science support in a hotly contested National Science Foundation reauthorization bill? According to Daniel Lipinski, the very conservative Democratic congressman whose amendment backfilled $50 million that even more conservative Republicans wanted to take away, a lot and a little.

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