Cultural evolutionary behavioural science in public policy

Science and public policy.

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy

Ideology, science, and public policy.

I deologies—strong beliefs based on untestable assumptions—are the antithesis of science. Whether economic (the ‘‘invisible hand of the market’’ will solve social inequities ‘‘in the long run’’), religious (‘‘we’’ hold the sole truth of a divine entity), or political (our way is the best governance for assuring liberty and justice), these kinds of widespread beliefs are acceptable in individual...

Basic science and public policy.

I would like to address my attention to the Cancer Program as seen by the basic science community, not so much in terms of dollars and cents but of the objectives; i.e., where and how the basic sciences should fit and what role they have been asked to play in the Program. I am not going to deal with specifics of appropriation from the NCI budget, nor with the scientific basis of cancer control....

In the press: Science and Public Policy

We advocate a scientometric, top-down, and institution-based research assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated-with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling 7 year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite ‘revo...