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Science in America

Kathryn Olesko

Science is under attack. It's not a new situation. We can learn from the past.

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Latest Issues

Gold Standard Science, Part I

Greetings! I’m back to writing on Substack. Thank you for your patience!

Six months ago I and seven of my colleagues published an open access roundtable commentary on “The Crisis in American Science.” Please read that piece if you have the...

6 months ago
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Historians Speak Up

Over the past few months I’ve been engaged in pulling together a roundtable commentary on “The Crisis in American Science” for the journal History of Science. It is finally published online! Thanks to Editor Lissa Roberts for the invitation...

a year ago
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Forms of Resistance

Since my last post about a month ago on censorship and the Enola Gay, I’ve been engaged in resistance against the current regime. It has taken time away from writing new posts on the state of science in the United States. Within the next we...

a year ago
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Censorship and the Enola Gay

The furor in the current administration over anything related to DEI resulted on March 7, 2025 in the removal from Department of Defense websites of images and references to the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the firs...

a year ago
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The Politics of Standards

Of all the federal institutes I thought would be immune from staff firings, the National Institute of Standards and Technology topped the list. It’s just about the geekiest institute I know. After all, the approximately 3400 scientists, eng...

a year ago
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    Retired faculty member from Georgetown University. Trying to do my part to save science in America.

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