Can Philanthropy Save Public Science?
Philanthropy can help save science by rebuilding the democratic foundations of science: public trust, public capacity, public deliberation, and public legitimacy. But if philanthropy becomes the off-cycle home for scientific and technological agendas that cannot secure durable democratic support, it will not save science.
Tired of the Endless “Endless Frontier”
Science policy colleagues seem convinced that invoking Vannevar Bush and showcasing a bipartisan parade of former presidents’ support for science will restore public consensus. I doubt it.
How Science Got Lost
RCP8.5 and the Politics of Plausible Catastrophe I have been thinking about the recent RCP8.5-related conversation not as a climate denial story or an argument against climate action, but as a case study in how science can sometimes get lost. Not how science got lost because scientists are corrupt. Not how science got lost because […]
