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How to Judge a Basic Research Proposal

Editor’s note: This guest post by J. E. R. Staddon is a part of “How to Reform U.S. Science Funding” series.

Tech megastar Peter Thiel, in a recent interview, said that he no longer trusts science. Lesser luminaries have said much the sam...

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To Reform Science, Take a Seat on the SOFA

Editor’s note: This post is a part of “How to Reform U.S. Science Funding” series.

When President Roosevelt asked Vannevar Bush for a proposal for the federal government to fund basic research in universities, Bush’s response (actually the...

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Racial Preferences at the University of California

Both California law and a recent Supreme Court decision forbid the University of California (UC) from considering race in admissions. Nevertheless, UC purposely boosts Hispanic and Black applicants relative to Asians and Whites. If the flag...

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When “Election Performance” Became “Election Efficiency”: How MIT’s Data Lab Quietly Stopped Measuring What Matters

In 2013, the Pew Charitable Trusts launched the Elections Performance Index to provide “nonpartisan, objective measures of election administration in the United States.” The project convened academics and election officials from 14 states t...

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DEI Shifts in STEM: Less Anti-Asian, More Anti-White

Restrictions on Asian American admissions into top STEM programs—ironically, imposed in the name of DEI—are receding. Thanks to the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision banning race-based admissions and the Trump administration’s commitment to enf...

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  • Dorian Abbot

    I am a professor at the University of Chicago.

  • J Scott Turner

    I am a retired professor of biology, who has been led into heterodox thoughts about the nature of life, adaptation and evolution. I am presently Director of Science Programs at the National Association of Scholars.

  • Coel Hellier

    I'm a scientist. Posts here are likely to be about the nature and philosophy of science, and about societal issues such as secularism and free speech: reality above ideology; free speech above taboos.

  • Evan D. Morris

    Evan D. Morris is Prof. of Bioimaging at Yale. He develops models to analyze PET images. He led 25 Yale profs to Israel and produced, "Indivisible. The Israeli Academy after Oct 7th": https://www.indivisibleyale.com . He doesn’t use AI for drawing.

  • James E Enstrom, PhD, MPH

    Retired UCLA Research Professor (Epidemiology) President, Scientific Integrity Institute (http://scientificintegrityinstitute.org/) Team Member, CO2 Coalition (https://co2coalition.org/teammember/james-enstrom/) [email protected] (310) 472-4274

  • Andreas Bikfalvi MD PhD

    I am Professor at the University of Bordeaux and I am working in cancer research field. I have also a strong interest in the philosophy of science and got recently a PhD in philosophy from The Sorbonne university in Paris.

  • Kent Osband

    Economic historian, finance theorist, and fan of reasoned debate

  • Iván Marinovic

    Stanford GSB

  • Leigh Revers

    University science professor in cancellation mode.

  • Sergiu Klainerman

    Higgins professor of mathematics at Princeton University

  • Surjeet Rajendran

    Surjeet is a physicist from Johns Hopkins who has realized that complaining behind closed doors is not a useful way to solve problems.

  • James Shuls

    Head of the Education Liberty branch of the Institute for Governance and Civics at Florida State University

  • Anna Krylov

    Anna Krylov is a professor of chemistry at the University of Southern California. She received her professional training from Moscow State University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of California, Berkeley.

  • Ilya Shapiro

    Director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Defender of free speech & intellectual diversity. Author of Supreme Disorder, Lawless, and the Shapiro's Gavel newsletter. I write about law, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.

  • Suzannah Alexander

    Whistleblower, but on my off days I can bake an enviable pie or spin a yarn. Wielder of a dry wit, hobbies include fist shaking, compulsive questioning, and running with dogs in cold rain.

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