The Frontier
The Frontier
Our Republic of Science with Charles Yang and Ian Banks
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Our Republic of Science with Charles Yang and Ian Banks

Personnel shakeups in our science policy institutions, virtue metascience, and the conservative case for "ways of knowing"

Tim Hwang is joined by FAI Director of Science Policy Ian Banks, FAI Director of Outreach Rachel Reses, and Renaissance Philanthropy’s Charles Yang to break down this unique moment in American science: how “personnel is policy” applies to science-focused agencies too, who’s becoming the Marco Rubio of public health, why scientific storytelling matters, and what it would take for the right to get into indigenous ways of knowing (laudatory).

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Charles Yang’s Substack:

Polanyi’s Republic of Science: https://www.polanyisociety.org/mp-repsc.htm

Ian Banks and Tim Hwang’s Virtue Metascience essay:

Macroscience
Virtue Metascience
Editor’s note: Macroscience publishes a range of ideas: hot takes, warm takes, and evidence-informed pieces that aren’t takes at all. This one is a delightful hot take. While I don’t agree with everything here, I do think that the virtue ethics and consequentialist lenses are useful for evaluating both individual and institutional behavior in science…
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Why Most Published Research Findings Are False: https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124

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