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A More Political Science

What is science’s rightful place? How should we govern technology?

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Special Report | Winter 2012

Winter 2012

The Stem Cell Debates

Lessons for Science and Politics
Preface
The Stem Cell Debates
The Science of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The Promise of Stem Cell Therapies
Ethical Considerations Regarding Stem Cell Research
Stem Cell Research Funding: Policy and Law
Overview of International Human Embryonic Stem Cell Laws

Special Series

The Coronavirus Pandemic

The Case for a Pandemic Moonshot
Danger: Caution Ahead
Is This Still an Emergency?
Sacrifice Is Not a Therapy
‘Life is too short to be miserable’
What Is the CDC?
Dance Till We Die
The Cop-Out of “Follow the Science”
The Danger of Fact-ist Politics
A Victory for Scientific Pragmatism
Visiting Grandparents Is Essential
The New Strain: How Bad Is It?
Little Data, Big Headlines
Disarming Frontline Doctors
How We Reason About Covid Tradeoffs
Science as Scorekeeping
Covid Denialists and the Fight over Liberalism
Radiation Politics in a Pandemic
Abortion and the Coronavirus Vaccine
Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science
Squandering America’s Strength
Not as Deadly as We Thought?
Just a New York Problem?
Not Like the Flu, Not Like Car Crashes, Not Like…
Prudence in a Storm
The Impossible Ethics of Pandemic Triage
I’m Young and Healthy. If I Get Coronavirus, Will I Be Fine?
Save Lives, Ready Shovels
America’s Pandemic Data Gap
What’s the Plan?
Battlefield Promotions
“A Coronavirus Winter”: Michael T. Osterholm on the Road Ahead

Collection | Spring 2008

Spring 2008

Montesquieu and the Motives for Science

The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences
Montesquieu’s Popular Science

Symposium | Summer 2004

Summer 2004

Internet Pornography: An Exchange

The End of Obscenity
The Pornography Culture

Special Series

Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
Wasting the Water of Life
Artful by Nature
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
The Last Temptation of Science
A Far Other Butterfly
The Possibility of Progress
Love Conquers All

Special Report | Summer 2015

Summer 2015

The Threat of Human Cloning

Ethics, Recent Developments, and the Case for Action
Executive Summary
Members of the Witherspoon Council
Preface: Cloning Then and Now
Part One: Scientific and Historical Background
Part Two: The Case Against Cloning-to-Produce-Children
Part Three: The Case Against Cloning-for-Biomedical-Research
Part Four: Cloning Policy in the United States
Part Five: Recommendations
Appendix: State Laws on Human Cloning
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Tribalism Comes for Pandemic Science

Can our polarized country act on provisional knowledge?

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Squandering America’s Strength

How centralization created a single point of failure in our Covid-19 response

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Not as Deadly as We Thought?

Why fighting about Covid-19’s fatality rate is a distraction

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Brendan Foht

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May 5, 2020

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