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Research Authority: Make Them Subjectively Competent
The best fundraiser I’ve known is a scientist, and he’s the best fundraiser for two reasons: 1) Donors love talking to a world-class scientist as opposed to a professional fundraiser, and 2) he quickly makes the
Say What the Evidence Means
List member David Chapin, CEO of Forma Life Science Marketing, responds to my post on why researchers need to call it early more often with some understanding and some tough love takeaways: One thing that your
Calling It Early: Make it Easier for Your Experts
The odd but oddly satisfying thing about “How the West Lost COVID,” New York Magazine writer David Wallace-Wells’ magisterial and muddled new overview of pandemic response failures in the United States and Europe, is that you’ll
Science + Celebrities: A Call for Partnership
This guest post is by Dr. Amy Dickman, a conservation biologist and National Geographic Explorer who directs the Ruaha Carnivore Project (and is also joint CEO of Lion Landscapes, a Kenya-based independent non-profit conservation research org
How Much ‘Reading Around’ is Enough?
Research experts read two kinds of ways about big subjects, says the MacArthur-Award winning sociologist Tressie McMillan Cottom: 1) what she calls census reading, straightforward reading about the facts of a subject, and 2) reading around, which goes “beyond
Vaccine Hesitancy is Declining (& Science is Missing It)
Matt Yglesias wrote an astonishing pair of sentences the other day: “Nobody actually listens to the CDC,” and “Normal means ignoring Dr. Fauci.” Yglesias points out that, on alcohol consumption, the cooking of egg yolks and