Showing posts with label open letter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label open letter. Show all posts
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Open Letter from NAS Members to U.S. Senators and Representatives urging support for science

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In a victory of optimism over experience, I continue to sign a small fraction of the open letters that come my way.  Also, it's good t...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

The repugnance of slavery (1847)--an open letter

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  The civil war was preceded by a schism among Northern and Southern Baptists over the institution of slavery.  The recent rediscovery of a...
Saturday, June 14, 2025

Worrying about fascism like it's 1925--an open letter

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 The organization https://stopreturnfascism.org / has published an open letter (in multiple languages) expressing concern, one hundred years...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Open letter on Science

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  Here's the NYT story out this morning, Trump Administration Has Begun a War on Science, Researchers. Say Nearly 2,000 scientists urged...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Challenge trials are becoming more accepted

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Challenge trials, also called human infection trials, are clinical trials in which e.g. a vaccine is tested on participants who have volunte...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s

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  23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s By Phil Mattingly, CNN "More than half of t...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Feedback (from Trump campaign) on open letter by economists

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  I get asked to sign many letters, and  while I'm generally reluctant to venture beyond my own specific areas of expertise into areas i...
Sunday, November 5, 2023

Deceased organ donation in the Economist (article and letter to the editor)

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  Here's a recent article on deceased organ donation, in The Economist, followed by a letter to the editor from Alex Chan and me. In Ame...
Sunday, September 3, 2023

Protest against political persecution of Prof Muhammad Yunus, and more general threats to democracy in Bangladesh

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  The Bangladesh Daily Star publishes an open letter, and the NY Times provides some general background. Here's the  open letter to Prim...
Monday, May 22, 2023

Over 100 Nobel Laureates join PEN International in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski

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Over 100 Nobel Laureates join PEN International in support of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski “ PEN International, the literary and...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Support for an independent judiciary in Israel

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  Democratic institution are under threat in many parts of the world, involving elections, insurrections, and the courts.  Israel is no exce...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Attack on Sharif University in Iran: an open letter

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 I'm among the signers of yet another open letter protesting events in Iran, this one against violent attacks on peaceful protesters in...
Wednesday, October 5, 2022

Open letters--democracy and academic freedom, in Iran and Turkey

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 Around this time of year I think of the various open letters I sign, from among many that I'm invited to sign.  (I try to avoid signing...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Open letter of support for Ukraine from 163 Nobel Laureates

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  Nobel Laureate Support for Ukraine Nobel Letter      English   |   Ukrainian   |   Russian Nobel signatories Personal statement from the D...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Why I have signed election day letters

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 I am a reluctant letter signer, but this election season I have signed two open letters.  My reluctance stems in part from the fact that, w...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Vote! Here's another open letter, this one from business school professors

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  Open letters are in season, and I've signed another one.  You can too, at the link. It’s Time for America’s Business Leaders to Speak ...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Open letter by economists opposing re-election of current U.S. president

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  Open Letter: 690 Economists Oppose Trump's Re-Election Don't forget to vote. ******** update: 932 economists the last time I check...
Tuesday, October 6, 2020

An open letter to Canadian health authorities on laws against compensating Canadian plasma donors

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  The letter is available on a website called Donation Ethics: Ethicists and Economists for Ethical Donation-Compensation Practices   organi...
Monday, July 20, 2020

SCIENTISTS FOR SCIENCE-BASED Policy (even more, and again)--open letter

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Here's a self explanatory email: Dear NAS Colleagues, We are deeply appreciative of your decision in spring 2018 to sign the  St...
Friday, July 17, 2020

Open letter supporting human challenge trials for COVID-19 vaccines

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Here's the website of the advocacy organization 1 Day Sooner (where you can read about human challenge trials, and volunteer for one)...