Trump science budget sows confusion

The Trump Administration and the Environment - Heed the Science.

Science-based policies and regulations have resulted in tremendous gains in environmental quality and reduced the population’s exposure to harmful pollutants (Fig. 1). In the United States, the gains have been driven by major laws that were passed and amended by Republican and Democratic administrations alike (Table 1). For example, the 1970 Clean Air Act (CAA), signed by President Richard Nixo...

Standing up for science in the era of Trump.

Myth, Confusion, and Science in Causal Analysis

As most students of causality know, the answer is of course, Yes; the M -graph model presented by Shrier (see also [2], p. 186, and [3]) provides a simple such example; the crude estimate in this example is bias-free, while PS methods, or any method that adjusts for the measured covariate (a collider), introduce new bias. In his reply [4], Rubin did not address Shrier’s question. To do so would...

Budget worries cloud Europe’s science plans

because the Commission had been unable to spend all of last year's money. " We accept that this is a priority area, but since you are already underspending, we don't believe they'll be able to spend more of it, " an official said. " It is unhelpful and unfortunate that the commission should choose to single out one country when, as presidency, we are representing the whole council and this is a...

Does Security Trump Reliability?

D oes security trump reliability, or vice versa? In 2013, the Seventh International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE) in Gaithersburg, Maryland, hosted a panel discussion with representation from industry, academia, and government to answer this question. Neither the panelists nor anyone in the audience took a firm stance. Rather, the discussion meandered from the original ...