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  • Trump Shakes Up the National Science Board
    April 28, 2026

    Trump Shakes Up the National Science Board

    Trump’s termination of all 24 NSB members is less an attack on science than a break from its politicization.
  • Sometimes Science Needs A Brilliant Bastard
    April 23, 2026

    Sometimes Science Needs A Brilliant Bastard

    Difficult personalities often advance research, but today’s universities drive them out.
  • Virtue by Tick Bite
    April 22, 2026

    Virtue by Tick Bite

    And problems with vegetarianism and moral depravity.
  • Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town
    March 6, 2026

    Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding Won’t Stop the ‘Green’ Agenda in Your Town

    Just ask Syracuse’s tree-planting mayor.
  • 10,000 PhDs
    February 13, 2026

    10,000 PhDs

    A closer look at the alleged STEM ‘exodus’ reveals not a national emergency, but a government-engineered surplus decades in the making.
  • Should Faculty SAT Scores Be Public?
    February 6, 2026

    Should Faculty SAT Scores Be Public?

    After decades in higher education, I’ve reconsidered what accountability should look like.
  • “Science Under Siege” Under Siege
    January 27, 2026

    “Science Under Siege” Under Siege

    Michael Mann and Peter Hotez fight an imaginary war on science.
  • American Universities Need a New Defense
    January 20, 2026

    American Universities Need a New Defense

    Just not the defense former Columbia University president thinks they need.
  • Scientists Walk Happily Into the Federal Funding Trap
    November 18, 2025

    Scientists Walk Happily Into the Federal Funding Trap

  • Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble
    November 10, 2025

    Bursting the Scopes Trial Bubble

  • Short Take: Science Has a Publicist
    September 3, 2025

    Short Take: Science Has a Publicist

  • The War on mRNA—Apocalypse Imminent?
    August 26, 2025

    The War on mRNA—Apocalypse Imminent?

  • Federal Judge Upholds NSF Grant Terminations, Bolstering Trump’s Science Agenda
    August 8, 2025

    Federal Judge Upholds NSF Grant Terminations, Bolstering Trump’s Science Agenda

  • NIH’s New Rules Try to Curb Tech Abuses but Miss the Structural Rot in Research Funding
    July 30, 2025

    NIH’s New Rules Try to Curb Tech Abuses but Miss the Structural Rot in Research Funding

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: Evolution and Culture in 1920s America
    June 27, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: Evolution and Culture in 1920s America

  • WATCH: Science Gets Bad Budget News, Filling In the Details of Out of Africa, and Sharks Fear the Reaper
    June 25, 2025

    WATCH: Science Gets Bad Budget News, Filling In the Details of Out of Africa, and Sharks Fear the Reaper

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Prosecution
    June 20, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Prosecution

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Defense
    June 13, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: The Case for the Defense

  • The Scopes Trial Centenary: “Inherit the Wind”
    June 10, 2025

    The Scopes Trial Centenary: “Inherit the Wind”

  • Scientists, Not Serfs
    May 20, 2025

    Scientists, Not Serfs

  • To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants
    May 9, 2025

    To Rescue Science, Phase Out Research Grants

  • Indirect Costs Make Science a Revenue Game Not a Discovery Quest
    May 5, 2025

    Indirect Costs Make Science a Revenue Game Not a Discovery Quest

  • Universities Are Freaking Out Over Research Funding Cuts They Can Totally Handle
    April 11, 2025

    Universities Are Freaking Out Over Research Funding Cuts They Can Totally Handle

  • $15 Billion Saved from Indirect Costs Boosts Research
    April 9, 2025

    $15 Billion Saved from Indirect Costs Boosts Research

  • Stand Up for Funding
    March 28, 2025

    Stand Up for Funding

  • Columbia Complied—Its Capitulation Proves Universities Are Addicted to Federal Money
    March 24, 2025

    Columbia Complied—Its Capitulation Proves Universities Are Addicted to Federal Money

  • Scientists in Charge? ‘I Can’t Think of Anything Worse’
    November 6, 2024

    Scientists in Charge? ‘I Can’t Think of Anything Worse’

  • Science Needs a Check-Up. Bureaucracy is Failing the Integrity Test.
    October 18, 2024

    Science Needs a Check-Up. Bureaucracy is Failing the Integrity Test.

  • Science ‘Integrity’ and Its Discontents
    October 16, 2024

    Science ‘Integrity’ and Its Discontents

  • Botanical Backlash: The Controversy Over “Woke” Taxonomy and Historical Nomenclature
    September 20, 2024

    Botanical Backlash: The Controversy Over “Woke” Taxonomy and Historical Nomenclature

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