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The Covid-19 pandemic has underlined the importance of scientific advice to modern policymaking. But how can the use of expertise in politics be aligned with the needs and values of the public?
Too many national leaders get good guidance yet make poor decisions.
The decision to appoint a board of advisors is welcome - and urgent, given the twin challenges of COVID and climate change.
Concerns about a "new Cold War" over science and technology are a major reason behind the creation of a new think tank that looks out for future advances and development.
International agencies need the mandate, funds and expertise to connect information - otherwise pandemics, hunger and unsustainability will go unsolved.
When it comes to science advice infrastructure, Europe is far from a unified whole. That’s why the European Commission’s science service, the Joint Research Centre, set out to map the entire landscape, looking not only at European and national level but also digging into the way science influences policy within regions and even individual cities.
The largest-ever independent gathering of interest groups, thought-leaders, science advisors to governments and global institutions, researchers, academics, communicators and diplomats is taking place in Montreal and online.
Whatever Biden review finds, the cause of the pandemic lies in the destruction of animal habitats.
How to facilitate the use of science as a key element of the policy-making process.
John Ioannidis is a highly influential scientist whom we at SBM have lauded on many an occasion. Since the pandemic, though, he's downplayed the dangers of COVID-19. What the happened to him?
New body will foster evidence-informed decision-making and awareness programmes for the public
Coronavirus has shown how good science should be embedded in all big political decisions.
Indonesia has dismantled its science ministry and created an overarching national research agency, a move some scientists worry will strengthen political control over research in a country where academic freedom is already under pressure and politics have taken an authoritarian turn.
Governments that ignore or delay acting on scientific advice are missing out on a crucial opportunity to control the pandemic.
The Senate is considering Eric S. Lander's nomination after months of delay. Some experts ask if an adviser can actually have an impact.
Senate, House of Representatives panels examine proposals for massive spending hike and new directorate.
Florida is poised to pass a bill allowing students to record classes for personal use -- and to complain about professors who violate students' free expression.
Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the U.S. and increasingly around the world
On March 4, 1969, the Union of Concerned Scientists held its first public event at MIT with the goal of disrupting teaching and research to give way to a different kind of teaching-reflecting on the misuse of scientific knowledge. It's relevance is continued.
Lengthy battle over regulators' use of confidential data ends in Montana courtroom.
Despite a long list of supremely qualified people who could inspire a whole new generation of scientists, the glass ceiling in American science remains intact.
Scientists praise US president's pick of Alondra Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. will bring with him the largest team of climate change experts ever assembled in the White House, and action on global warming is expected quickly.
Under Biden, genome-sequencing pioneer Eric Lander may become the most powerful scientist in US history. But he comes with some baggage.
Politics has thoroughly contaminated the scientific process in 2020. The result has been an epidemic of distrust, which further undermines the nation’s already chaotic and ineffective response to the coronavirus.
Authorities' increased scrutiny of Chinese researchers' background causes concern about unfair accusations.
Moncef Slaoui, scientific head of Operation Warp Speed, discusses challenges and politics of approving a vaccine before the election.
Leaders of the scientific community have declared that American science is in a crisis due to inadequate federal funding. They misconstrue the problem; its roots lie instead in the institutional interactions between federal funding agencies and higher education.
