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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Sep 25, 2019

“White Coat Waste Takes Aim at Animal Research — From the Right”

“In the past 12 months, White Coat Waste has focused particular attention on research conducted under the auspices of the Department of Veterans Affairs, shuttering one project in California, triggering internal…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Feb 18, 2019

“There’s No Such Thing As ‘Sound Science’”

“Calls to base public policy on “sound science” seem unassailable if you don’t know the term’s history. The phrase was adopted by the tobacco industry in the 1990s to counteract mounting evidence linking secondhand smoke to cancer. A 1992 Environmental…

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Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Jan 10, 2019

“Gun research could save lives, but America won’t fund it”

“In order to prevent gun injuries and deaths, we need accurate information about how they occur and why. While police reports and FBI data can provide some detail, they don’t include the thousands of cases that go unreported each…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Nov 25, 2017

“Nature Editorial: Socio-economic inequality in science is on the rise”

“The good news is that science is keeping up with modern trends. The bad news is that trend seems to be towards wider inequality, fewer opportunities for those from more disadvantaged backgrounds and a…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Oct 15, 2017

“Putin’s Hackers Now Under Attack — From Microsoft”

“Since August, Microsoft has used the lawsuit to wrest control of 70 different command-and-control points from Fancy Bear. The company’s approach is indirect, but effective. Rather than getting physical custody of the servers, which Fancy…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Sep 28, 2017

“Obama’s science diaspora prepares for a fight”

“Arguably, OSTP just wrapped up its most influential eight-year period since the science adviser’s early days under Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy… the way Obama and Holdren emphasized science and technology left a mark on…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Sep 21, 2017

“Scientists should be political but not partisan”

“Politics has become a dirty word, largely associated with partisan jockeying for power. But politics is fundamentally the “activity associated with governance of a country or other area” and science is deeply intertwined with governance…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Apr 1, 2017

“Seeds of Doubt”

“Hundreds of millions of people, in twenty-eight countries, eat transgenic products every day, and if any of Shiva’s assertions were true the implications would be catastrophic. But no relationship between glyphosate and the diseases that Shiva mentioned has been discovered. Her claims were based…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Jan 21, 2017

“The Psychologists Take Power”

“It is only more recently that the claims of psychologists to moral expertise have come to be taken seriously. Contributing to their new aura of authority has been their association with neuroscience, with its claims to illuminate the distinct neural pathways taken by our…

Jess Brooks in Science and Innovation

Nov 1, 2016

“The scientists who support Donald Trump”

“David Deming, a geophysicist at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, doesn’t think it matters whether Trump and Clinton have much personal knowledge of science. “Trump said he’d appoint good people and I believe him,” says Deming, who has written…