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 […]
The Musée des Confluences: Celebrating Secularism and the Sciences
What does one do on a wet Sunday afternoon in Lyon, France? The shopping malls are closed, as are many of the […]
The Tradwife to Far-Right Pipeline
In the September edition of The Evidence, Josephine Lethbridge explores the rise of the “tradwife” lifestyle – and why it demands serious […]
CASBS Welcomes 2025-26 Cohort of Fellows
Some 33 individuals from academe and private industry make up the 2025-26 class of fellows from the Center for Advanced Study in […]
Public Health and American Exceptionalism: Part II Raw Milk
‘Blessed are the cheesemakers’ – but not, it seems, in the US. Some years ago, I was at a conference in Madison, […]
It’s Silly to Expect AI Will Be Shorn of Human Bias
In July, the United States government made it clear that artificial intelligence (AI) companies wanting to do business with the White House […]
Public Health and American Exceptionalism: Part I – Vaccine Mandates
The hullabaloo over COVID-19 vaccine recommendations in the U.S. raises some interesting questions about other areas where public health elites have been […]
CDC – Meltdown or Hissy Fit?
At the time of writing, there is a new stand-off between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Trump administration […]
SSRC Stands Up Economic Research Rescue Fund for Researchers Hurt by NSF Cuts
The non-profit Social Science Research Council is offering a lifeline to economists whose existing grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation were […]
