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1. Congress's attacks on science-based rules

Author:
A. A. Rosenberg; L. M. Branscomb; V. Eady; P. C. Frumhoff; G. T. Goldman; M. Halpern; K. Kimmell; Y. Kothari; L. D. Kramer; N. F. Lane; J. J. McCarthy; P. Phartiyal; K. Rest; R. Sims; C. Wexler
Source:
Science 2015 v.348 no.6238 pp. 964-966
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
decision making; information transparency; issues and policy; laws and regulations; politics; risk; United States
Abstract:
... There is a growing and troubling assault on using credible scientific knowledge in U.S. government regulation that will put science and democracy at risk if unchecked. We present five examples, and the false premises on which they are based, of current attempts in the U.S. Congress in the supposed pursuit of transparency and accountability but at the expense of the role of science in policy-making ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aab2939

2. Science in U.S.-Cuba relations

Author:
Sergio Jorge Pastrana
Source:
Science 2015 v.348 no.6236 pp. 735
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
international agreements; politics; Cuba; Panama; South America; United States
Abstract:
... Last month, after more than half a century of estrangement, the presidents of Cuba and the United States sat together for talks in Panama at the Summit of the Americas. This truly symbolic step in the already agreed-upon path toward restoring diplomatic ties has increased expectations in scientific circles. However, any impact will depend on what policy-makers and researchers make of this long-awa ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aaa9542

3. A return to the pre-antimicrobial era?

Author:
Stephen Baker
Source:
Science 2015 v.347 no.6226 pp. 1064-1066
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
Acinetobacter baumannii; Staphylococcus aureus; antibiotic resistance; bacteria; bacterial infections; economic impact; fearfulness; infrastructure; momentum; motivation; new drugs; politics; South East Asia; Sub-Saharan Africa
Abstract:
... After many years out of the limelight, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria is firmly back on the international political and scientific agenda (1 , 2). The potential impact of AMR on hospital-acquired bacterial infections such as Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii in higher-income countries has created both fear and a surge of motivation aimed at providing new solutions for t ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aaa2868

4. Averting Lemur Extinctions amid Madagascar's Political Crisis

Author:
C. Schwitzer; R. A. Mittermeier; S. E. Johnson; G. Donati; M. Irwin; H. Peacock; J. Ratsimbazafy; J. Razafindramanana; E. E. Louis; L. Chikhi; I. C. Colquhoun; J. Tinsman; R. Dolch; M. LaFleur; S. Nash; E. Patel; B. Randrianambinina; T. Rasolofoharivelo; P. C. Wright
Source:
Science 2014 v.343 no.6173 pp. 842-843
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
Lemuridae; extinction; forest habitats; habitat destruction; mammals; politics; risk; Africa; Madagascar
Abstract:
... The most threatened mammal group on Earth, Madagascar's five endemic lemur families (lemurs are found nowhere else) (1), represent more than 20% of the world's primate species and 30% of family-level diversity. This combination of diversity and uniqueness is unmatched by any other country—remarkable considering that Madagascar is only 1.3 to 2.9% the size of the Neotropics, Africa, or Asia, the ot ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1245783

5. Coping with Uncertainty in Space Science Planning

Author:
Charles Kennel; Alan Dressler
Source:
Science 2014 v.343 no.6167 pp. 140-141
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration; planning; politics; resource allocation; uncertainty; United States
Abstract:
... Political gridlock is spreading a miasma of uncertainty over the space sciences in the United States. Neither those who give science advice nor those who receive it have a clear grasp of what the future holds, a reality for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that was underscored in NASA's Strategic Direction and the Need for a National Consensus (1). This report conclude ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1244231

6. Curriculum and the Cold War

Author:
Jeremy Kilpatrick
Source:
Science 2015 v.347 no.6220 pp. 380
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
curriculum; mathematics; politics; schools
Abstract:
... Spurred by concerns that the American education system was failing to keep pace with the Soviets after the "Sputnik crisis" of the late 1950s, a dramatic change occurred in the mathematics that was taught in American schools in the 1960s. This "new math", as it was known, was controversial from the start and ultimately short-lived. Jeremy Kilpatrick takes a second look at this contentious era in a ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aaa1471

7. Pursuit of the common good

Author:
Partha Dasgupta; Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Source:
Science 2014 v.345 no.6203 pp. 1457-1458
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
gross domestic product; leadership; markets; natural capital; politics; poverty; profits and margins; scientists
Abstract:
... Humanity is at a crossroads. Do we continue trends of preceding decades that lift people out of poverty and extend life spans, but in the process run down the planet's natural capital? Solutions to this profound problem will require greater cooperation among people. The rise of market fundamentalism and the drive for growth in profits and gross domestic product (GDP) have encouraged behavior that ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1259406

8. The rise of the social algorithm

Author:
David Lazer
Source:
Science 2015 v.348 no.6239 pp. 1090-1091
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
algorithms; color; models; politics; public policy
Abstract:
... Humanity is in the early stages of the rise of social algorithms: programs that size us up, evaluate what we want, and provide a customized experience. This quiet but epic paradigm shift is fraught with social and policy implications. The evolution of Google exemplifies this shift. It began as a simple deterministic ranking system based on the linkage structure among Web sites—the model of algorit ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aab1422

9. The selfish voter

Author:
John R. Hibbing
Source:
Science 2015 v.347 no.6221 pp. 482
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
attitudes and opinions; politics
Abstract:
... When it comes to political preferences, do we really just vote in our own self-interest? John R. Hibbing considers and ultimately rejects this idea in a review of The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It , calling the book's thesis "boldly stated, entertainingly developed, and ultimately flawed." ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aaa1597

10. Transparency versus harassment

Author:
Michael Halpern; Michael Mann
Source:
Science 2015 v.348 no.6234 pp. 479
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
activists; business enterprises; cold treatment; politics; researchers; scientists; speech; universities
Abstract:
... Open records laws worldwide are critical to holding public institutions, including universities, accountable. Such laws protect against inappropriate influence on the scientific enterprise and promote public trust in the integrity of science and scientists. But the growing use of electronic communications by researchers makes these laws vulnerable to misuse. Conversations that used to occur in per ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aac4245

11. Watchdogs of the European system

Author:
James Wilsdon
Source:
Science 2015 v.348 no.6238 pp. 947
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
issues and policy; politics; Europe
Abstract:
... Henry Kissinger, as U.S Secretary of State, is famously said to have asked: “If I want to call Europe, who do I call?” Until recently, the scientific community thought it had an answer to this question: the chief scientific adviser (CSA) to the president of the European Commission (EC). Two weeks ago, that changed. ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.aac6092

12. A U.K. View on the U.S. Attack on Social Sciences

Author:
Paul Boyle
Source:
Science 2013 v.341 no.6147 pp. 719
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
National Institutes of Health; grants; politics; social sciences; United Kingdom; United States
Abstract:
... Social science is under attack in the United States. The National Science Foundation (NSF) is prohibited from funding political science, except for grants identified by its director as “promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.” The High Quality Research Act is being drafted with the aim of guarding against “questionable projects” at NSF. A bill was proposed that ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1242563

13. Biodiversity Risks from Fossil Fuel Extraction

Author:
N. Butt; H. L. Beyer; J. R. Bennett; D. Biggs; R. Maggini; M. Mills; A. R. Renwick; L. M. Seabrook; H. P. Possingham
Source:
Science 2013 v.342 no.6157 pp. 425-426
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
biodiversity; climate change; ecosystems; fossil fuels; habitat destruction; humans; introduced species; pathogens; politics; risk
Abstract:
... Despite a global political commitment to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010 through the 2002 Convention on Biological Diversity, declines are accelerating and threats are increasing (1). Major threats to biodiversity are habitat loss, invasion by exotic species and pathogens, and climate change, all principally driven by human activities. Although fossil fuel (FF) extraction has traditionally been s ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1237261

14. Drug Policy as Conservation Policy: Narco-Deforestation

Author:
Kendra McSweeney; Erik A. Nielsen; Matthew J. Taylor; David J. Wrathall; Zoe Pearson; Ophelia Wang; Spencer T. Plumb
Source:
Science 2014 v.343 no.6170 pp. 489-490
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
drugs; issues and policy; politics; profits and margins; violence; watersheds; Central America; North America; South America
Abstract:
... The watershed 2013 report, The Drug Problem in the Americas (1), highlights a shift toward multilateral support for hemispheric drug policy reform. This report by the Organization of American States (OAS) reviews failures of the U.S.-led prohibitionist “war on drugs” and urges states to reconsider orthodox “supply-side” strategies (including interdiction and drug crop eradication), and to focus mo ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1244082

15. Emerging, evolving, and established infectious diseases and interventions

Author:
M. Elizabeth Halloran; Ira M. Longini
Source:
Science 2014 v.345 no.6202 pp. 1292-1294
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
infectious diseases; planning; politics; public health; vaccination
Abstract:
... Planning, implementing, and evaluating interventions against infectious diseases depend on the nature of the infectious disease; the availability of intervention measures; and logistical, economic, and political constraints. Infectious diseases and vaccine- or drug-based interventions can be loosely categorized by the degree to which the infectious disease and the intervention are well established ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1254166
PubMed:
25214617
PubMed Central:
PMC4408765

16. Halving premature death

Author:
Richard Peto; Alan D. Lopez; Ole F. Norheim
Source:
Science 2014 v.345 no.6202 pp. 1272
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
Human immunodeficiency virus; death; disasters; disease outbreaks; economic development; health services; mortality; neonates; politics; risk; sanitation; social change
Abstract:
... Death in old age is inevitable, but death before old age is not. Except where HIV or political disturbances predominated, mortality rates have been decreasing for decades, helped by sanitation, health care, and social changes. Even in low-income countries, at current death rates, three-quarters of newborn infants would survive to age 50, and half would survive to age 70. If disease control keeps p ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1259971

17. Measuring the path toward malaria elimination

Author:
Thomas S. Churcher; Justin M. Cohen; Joseph Novotny; Nyasatu Ntshalintshali; Simon Kunene; Simon Cauchemez
Source:
Science 2014 v.344 no.6189 pp. 1230-1232
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
World Health Organization; burden of disease; malaria; politics
Abstract:
... In many parts of the world, malaria elimination—defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the absence of locally acquired malaria cases in the country—is being considered as a target because of recent successes in reducing disease burden (1 , 2). Rigorous evaluation of malaria elimination programs is essential for financial and political support to be maintained. Yet such evaluation remain ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1251449
PubMed:
24926005
PubMed Central:
PMC4340075

18. Nelson R. Mandela (1918–2013)

Author:
Salim S. Abdool Karim
Source:
Science 2014 v.343 no.6167 pp. 150
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
politics; South Africa
Abstract:
... When Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela died on 5 December, the world lost one of its greatest leaders. Lawyer. Protester. Revolutionary. Anti-apartheid leader. Prisoner. Negotiator. President. Statesman. Anti-AIDS campaigner. Philanthropist. These 10 stages of his life capture his historic long walk to freedom and his legacy as a great humanitarian. ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1249822

19. No Windfall for U.S. Science

Author:
Marcia McNutt
Source:
Science 2014 v.343 no.6166 pp. 6
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
grants; inflation; politics; research and development; time series analysis; windthrow; United States
Abstract:
... With sequestration, 2013 was not a banner year for U.S. Science. The federal research and development (R&D) budget, at an estimated $132.8B (billion), was 6.9% below 2012 levels and the lowest it had been since 2002, adjusted for inflation. With October came the government-wide shutdown, when the political parties failed to reach agreement on the 2014 appropriation. After 2 weeks of critical exper ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1250035

20. Pollution, Politics, and Vultures

Author:
Andrew Balmford
Source:
Science 2013 v.339 no.6120 pp. 653-654
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
heavy metals; nontarget organisms; nutrients; pesticides; poisoning; politics; pollutants; scientists; veterinary drugs; South Asia
Abstract:
... Fifty years after the publication of Rachel Carson's groundbreaking book Silent Spring , environmental pollutants, whose impacts are hard to diagnose and harder still to control, continue to cause grave damage to nontarget organisms. The range of substances of concern has expanded since Carson's day from nutrients, pesticides, and heavy metals and now includes pharmaceuticals. Although drug pollut ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1234193