Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Monday, September 22, 2025

Science and politics: Can you fix science by doing much less of it?

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 Today's NYT has a long opinion piece about (my former Stanford colleague) Jay  Bhattacharya in his role as the new head of the National...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Politics and science disagree about drinking and climate change...

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 It turns our that worries about drinking were just as woke about worries about climate change. The NYT has the story on drinking, CBS on cl...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Matching Senators to committees: a(nother) party divide, by Ashutosh Thakur

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 Here's an innovative paper by Ashutosh Thakur that does for legislative matching of senators to committees what the study of matching...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

A Tale of Two Statues (in Denmark and U.S.)

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 Public art is one of those things that depends in different ways on public and political support. So, in Denmark, one statue of a mermaid i...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

The science and politics of vaping in the U.S

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 The Washington Post has the story: FDA lets Juul market vapes in the U.S. three years after trying to ban them Federal regulators first ann...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Explaining economics can change the evaluation of policies, by Elias, Lacetera and Macis

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 Perhaps economists should get involved in the discussion of public policies during political campaigns... Is the Price Right? The Role of E...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Universities under attack, in Israel and the U.S., by warfare and lawfare

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Both the U.S. and Israel have distinguished universities, some older than the country in which they sit. Both have universities that have re...
Sunday, May 25, 2025

Thinking about the ethical, legal and political relationships between IVF and abortion (in JAMA)

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Some people support both IVF and abortion (women's right to choose) and some people oppose both (embryos are people), but many oppose ab...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Kennedy proposes to focus on chronic disease, but terminates large-scale long-running NIH Diabetes Prevention study

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  The NYT has the story: As Kennedy Champions Chronic Disease Prevention, Key Research Is Cut.  Two significant programs that invested in re...
Sunday, April 6, 2025

CDC’s laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration

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 Statnews has the story: CDC’s top laboratory on sexually transmitted diseases is shut by Trump administration ‘We are blind,’ researcher sa...
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, March 9, 2025

Trans Forming Liberty. Amy Sherald at SFMOMA

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 Sometimes politics make an artwork even more politically fraught than when it was painted.      
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Demonstrating for science (in Washington and elsewhere)

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 Scientists are more accustomed to demonstrating science than demonstrating for science, but that may need to change. Nature has the story...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Politics, Physician Senators, and the Hippocratic Oath (regarding the confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS secretary)

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  Here's an opinion piece from MedpageToday Physician Senators, What Have You Done?— They have betrayed the Hippocratic Oath in voting t...
Saturday, February 1, 2025

give yourself a scare

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 Want to see something scary?  Click here:  The White House    https://www.whitehouse.gov/
Monday, November 11, 2024

Practical market design makes policy recommendations (which can violate NBER publication policy)

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The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) publishes a widely read series of working papers, before publication in refereed journals. T...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Nobel prize in economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson

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  " The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nob...
Monday, March 25, 2024

Anger and Sadness in Tel Aviv

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Saturday, on the last night of my just-ended visit to Israel, I attended two adjacent mass public events.  One was a political demonstration...