Tags: Science Policy
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Can Most Cancer Research Be Trusted?
Addressing the problem of "academic risk" in biomedical research
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Elites Fear the Future or, Why We Won't Be Seeing That Pliny The Elder Bio-Pic Any Time Soon
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Do-Nothing Congress Ignores Threat from the Sun
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Hugo Chávez Will Turn Planet Mars Red By 2030
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Where Do the Republican Candidates Stand on Science?
A roundup of the views of GOP hopefuls on contraception, evolution, Internet freedom, and more.
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The Kyoto Protocol Is Dead, Long Live the Kyoto Protocol
Reason’s science correspondent sends a fifth dispatch from the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Durban.
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Medvedev: If We Can Put a Man in a Gulag, Why Can’t We Send Him to Mars?
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Leave the Planet! Apply Today!
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The End of Climategate?
New data on global temperature trends sheds light on the 2009 climate change scandal.
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SpaceX CEO Wants Better NASA Deal
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Are Republicans or Democrats More Anti-Science?
Comparing the scientific ignorance of our mainstream parties
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Lukewarmers, Denialists, and Other Climate Change Skeptics
Impressions and reporting from the Sixth International Climate Change Conference
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Congress Moves to Ban Frankenfish
Special interests trump science in the debate over transgenic salmon.
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You Know Who Else Used Rockets? Hitler!
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Bureaucracy in Space
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E.T. Stay Home?
We haven't heard from space aliens and that might be good news.
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Cancun Climate Platitudes and Predictions
Second dispatch from the United Nations Climate Change conference in Cancun
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Lavatory of the Gods? NASA Keeps Finding Alien Life Everywhere But Space
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"Rockets to Outer Space" Not Mentioned In Constitution
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Will a Republican Congress Knock Science Back Into the Stone Age?
Predicting the effect of a victory for the G.O.P. "know-nothing flat-earthers" on science policy