Government And Science

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309377959

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Trust and Confidence at the Interfaces of the Life Sciences and Society by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Life Sciences,Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences Pdf

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how science can be used to address such societal concerns as childhood vaccination, cancer screening, and a warming planet? What could happen if social trust in science or scientists faded? These types of questions led the Roundtable on Public Interfaces of the Life Sciences of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a 2-day workshop on May 5-6, 2015 on public trust in science. This report explores empirical evidence on public opinion and attitudes toward life sciences as they relate to societal issues, whether and how contentious debate about select life science topics mediates trust, and the roles that scientists, business, media, community groups, and other stakeholders play in creating and maintaining public confidence in life sciences. Does the Public Trust Science? Trust and Confidence at the Interfaces of the Life Sciences and Society highlights research on the elements of trust and how to build, mend, or maintain trust; and examine best practices in the context of scientist engagement with lay audiences around social issues.

Author : David B. Resnik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199704682

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Playing Politics with Science by David B. Resnik Pdf

In the last decade, science in the United States has become increasingly politicized, as government officials have been accused of manipulating, distorting, subverting, and censoring science for ideological purposes. Political gamesmanship has played a major role in many different areas of science, including the debate over global climate change, embryonic stem cell research, government funding of research, the FDA's approval process, military intelligence related to Iraq, research with human subjects, and the teaching of evolution in public schools. In Playing Politics with Science, David B. Resnik explores the philosophical, political, and ethical issues related to the politicalization of science and develops a conceptual framework for thinking about government restrictions on scientific practice. Resnik argues that the public has a right and a duty to oversee scientific research to protect important social values and hold scientists accountable for their actions, but that inappropriate government control over science can erode the integrity and trustworthiness of research, hamper scientific creativity and innovation, undermine the fairness and effectiveness of government and policies informed by science, discourage talented researchers from working for the government, and violate the freedom of scientists. Resnik also makes policy recommendations for protecting science from politicalization, and maintains that scientific autonomy and government control must be properly balanced so that restrictions on science can benefit society without undermining scientific research, education, and expert advice.

Author : Richard P. Nathan
Publisher : Rockefeller Institute Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780914341659

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Social Science in Government by Richard P. Nathan Pdf

A new, substantially updated, and expanded version of a classic work on how to evaluate public policy published over a decade ago.

Author : Sir Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Science and state
ISBN : OCLC:1072723888

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Science and Government by Sir Charles Percy Snow Pdf

Author : David L. Lewis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781510743175

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Science for Sale by David L. Lewis Pdf

For the first time in paperback and with a new introduction. Discover how and why the government is corrupting scientific research. When Speaker Newt Gingrich greeted Dr. David Lewis in his office overlooking the National Mall, he looked at Dr. Lewis and said: “You know you’re going to be fired for this, don’t you?” “I know,” Dr. Lewis replied, “I just hope to stay out of prison.” Gingrich had just read Dr. Lewis’s commentary in Nature, titled “EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics.” Three years later, and thirty years after Dr. Lewis began working at EPA, he was back in Washington to receive a Science Achievement Award from Administrator Carol Browner for his second article in Nature. By then, EPA had transferred Dr. Lewis to the University of Georgia to await termination—the Agency’s only scientist to ever be lead author on papers published in Nature and Lancet. The government hires scientists to support its policies; industry hires them to support its business; and universities hire them to bring in grants that are handed out to support government policies and industry practices. Organizations dealing with scientific integrity are designed only to weed out those who commit fraud behind the backs of the institutions where they work. The greatest threat of all is the purposeful corruption of the scientific enterprise by the institutions themselves. The science they create is often only an illusion, designed to deceive; and the scientists they destroy to protect that illusion are often our best. This book is about both, beginning with Dr. Lewis’s experience, and ending with the story of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. This new edition, now for the first time in paperback, features a new introduction by the author.

Author : Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015031784336

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Science, Technology, and Government for a Changing World by Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government Pdf

Author : Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610166386

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Science, Technology, and Government by Murray N. Rothbard Pdf

In this previously unpublished manuscript, found in the Rothbard Archives, Rothbard deftly turns the tables on the supporters of big government and their mandate for control of research and development in all areas of the hard sciences. What R&D should be encouraged and funded, what inventions should be supported, and what areas should be given research grants, etc.? These decisions can only be decided by markets unburdened by government meddling and intervention. Rothbard shows that science best advances under the free market: the claims to the contrary of the centralizers are spurious. The best course of action for government is to get out of the way ...

Author : United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UOM:39015008975248

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Science, the Endless Frontier by United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development,Vannevar Bush Pdf

This influential report described science as "a largely unexplored hinterland" that would provide the "essential key" to the economic prosperity of the post World War II years.

Author : Richard Drayton,Richard Harry Drayton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0300059760

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Nature's Government by Richard Drayton,Richard Harry Drayton Pdf

This daring attempt to juxtapose the histories of Britain, western science, and imperialism shows how colonial expansion, from the age of Alexander the Great to the 20th century, led to complex kinds of knowledge.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264783959

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Enhanced Access to Publicly Funded Data for Science, Technology and Innovation by OECD Pdf

This report presents current policy practice to promote access to publicly funded data for science, technology and innovation, as well as policy challenges for the future. It examines national policies and international initiatives, and identifies seven issues that require policy attention.

Author : Stéphane Castonguay
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774866330

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Le gouvernement des ressources naturelles: science et territorialités de l'État québécois, 1867–1939 by Stéphane Castonguay Pdf

The Government of Natural Resources explores government scientific activity in Quebec from Confederation until the Second World War. Scientific and technical personnel are an often quiet presence within the state, but they play an integral role. By tracing the history of geology, forestry, fishery, and agronomy services, Stéphane Castonguay reveals how the exploitation of natural resources became a tool of government. As it shaped territorial and environmental transformations, scientific activity contributed to state formation and expanded administrative capacity. This thoughtful reconceptualization of resource development reaches well beyond provincial borders, changing the way we think of science and state power.

Author : R. Boden,D. Cox,M. Nedeva,K. Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403943934

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Scrutinising Science by R. Boden,D. Cox,M. Nedeva,K. Barker Pdf

By the 1980s, UK government research laboratories were an often quirky but always essential part of the state sector. In one of the most radical experiments in the organization and management of scientific research attempted in the UK, successive Conservative governments sought to reform these laboratories by applying the market-based solution of 'New Public Management'. Scrutinising Science explores and critiques that reform process by examining the laboratories' new organizational forms, the new visions of what science is for implicit in the reform agenda and the new forms of scientific knowledge production that have arisen as a consequence.

Author : Ken Steif
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000401578

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Public Policy Analytics by Ken Steif Pdf

Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R. Each of the eight chapters provides a detailed case study, showing readers: how to develop exploratory indicators; understand ‘spatial process’ and develop spatial analytics; how to develop ‘useful’ predictive analytics; how to convey these outputs to non-technical decision-makers through the medium of data visualization; and why, ultimately, data science and ‘Planning’ are one and the same. A graduate-level introduction to data science, this book will appeal to researchers and data scientists at the intersection of data analytics and public policy, as well as readers who wish to understand how algorithms will affect the future of government.

Author : Susanne Hecker,Muki Haklay,Anne Bowser,Zen Makuch,Johannes Vogel,Aletta Bonn
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781787352339

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Citizen Science by Susanne Hecker,Muki Haklay,Anne Bowser,Zen Makuch,Johannes Vogel,Aletta Bonn Pdf

Citizen science, the active participation of the public in scientific research projects, is a rapidly expanding field in open science and open innovation. It provides an integrated model of public knowledge production and engagement with science. As a growing worldwide phenomenon, it is invigorated by evolving new technologies that connect people easily and effectively with the scientific community. Catalysed by citizens’ wishes to be actively involved in scientific processes, as a result of recent societal trends, it also offers contributions to the rise in tertiary education. In addition, citizen science provides a valuable tool for citizens to play a more active role in sustainable development. This book identifies and explains the role of citizen science within innovation in science and society, and as a vibrant and productive science-policy interface. The scope of this volume is global, geared towards identifying solutions and lessons to be applied across science, practice and policy. The chapters consider the role of citizen science in the context of the wider agenda of open science and open innovation, and discuss progress towards responsible research and innovation, two of the most critical aspects of science today.

Author : A. Hunter Dupree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Science and state
ISBN : LCCN:86045456

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Science in the Federal Government by A. Hunter Dupree Pdf