The enduring pursuit of science in America

2026/06/25 by Neil H. Shubin · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Climate Change Communication and Perception #Ideology #Institution #Persuasion #Point (geometry) #Research, Science, and Academia #Rhetoric #Science, Research, and Medicine #Work (physics)

paper · pdf · doi:10.1126/science.aej8205

published in Science 392(6805), 1323 (American Association for the Advancement of Science)

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Abstract

Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems. Imagine this body would follow the evidence rather than the headlines and earn its authority not through rhetoric or persuasion but careful and rigorous analysis and transparent processes. This institution exists-although its work faces pressing challenges-and it is more urgently needed today than at any point in living memory.

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