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Heterodox STEM

Dorian Abbot, Bryan Caplan, Anna Krylov, Alex Nowrasteh, Garett Jones, Eric Rasmusen, Sally Satel, Andreas Bikfalvi MD PhD, Kent Osband, Daniel Nuccio, Leigh Revers, Evan D. Morris, Spartacus, Mark D'Souza, Hezi Gildor

Heterodox STEM is a collection of posts by heterodox thinkers in STEM fields.

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Resisting the Politicization of Science

This essay is based on an article Résistons à la politisation de la science published in French in Le Point on 23 November 2025 by Henri Atlan, Andreas Bikfalvi, Hervé Chneiweiss, and Nathalie Heinich (archived here).

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Authors

The writers behind this newsletter.

  • Dorian Abbot

    I am a professor at the University of Chicago.

  • Bryan Caplan

    I am a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a New York Times Bestselling author. My latest book is *You Have No Right to Your Culture*.

  • 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.

  • Alex Nowrasteh

    I'm the Senior Vice President for Policy at the Cato Institute. I write about immigration and occasionally other subjects.

  • Garett Jones

    I'm a macroeconomist at George Mason University, chief economist at Bluechip, a stablecoin rating agency, and author of The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move to a Lot Like the Ones They Left (Stanford University Press).

  • Eric Rasmusen

    Yale BA/MA'80, MIT Phd (econ) '84. Indiana U. prof. Law-and-economics, game theory, industrial organization, Japan.

  • Sally Satel

    Psychiatrist, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute and Lecturer, Yale University School of Medicine

  • 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

  • Daniel Nuccio

    Daniel Nuccio holds advanced degrees in bio and psych. When not studying host-microbe relationships in lonely voles, he spends his time moonlighting as a journalist. He is a regular contributor to both The College Fix and The Brownstone Institute.

  • Leigh Revers

    University science professor in cancellation mode.

  • Evan D. Morris

    Evan D. Morris is a Professor of Bioimaging at Yale. He develops models to analyze PET images. He led a mission of Yale profs to Israel and produced a documentary, “Indivisible. The Israeli Academy after October 7th”, to be released in early 2026.

  • Spartacus

    Publications in economics, biosciences, terrorism, and policy. He obtained his PhD with honors from UC Davis, has a bachelors degree in computer science, is a multiple entrepreneur and lectured for years to the MBA program at Santa Clara University.

  • Mark D'Souza

    Mark D’Souza is a practising Canadian physician and author of Lost and Found: How Meaningless Living is Destroying Us and Three Keys to Fix It

  • Hezi Gildor

    Professor of physical oceanography and paleoclimate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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