Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Vote Yes (With Caveats!) for the Destruction of Knowledge
Scholarly knowledge is under threat, and that’s both good and dire, argued panelists at a recent discussion in Vienna.
Tamiflu and the Ethics of the British Medical Journal
No one expected Tamiflu to be a wonder drug, but indications are that it’s moderately useful in fighting a serious public health threat. But that message was lost last week in an ill-starred rush to beat up on ‘wicked’ Big Pharma, argues Robert Dingwall.
Listen: ‘Thou Shalt Commit a Social Science’
At the kick off of the Campaign for Social Science’s lobbying effort before the 2015 UK general elections, journalist Tim Harford gives a real-life example of how social science both steps on and then enhances a compelling public policy narrative.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
