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How Virologists Lost the Gain-of-Function Debate

1 month ago | thenewatlantis.com | M. Anthony Mills |Zach Graves |Steven Menashi

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Shortly after the outbreak of the Covid pandemic in early 2020, rumors started to circulate that the virus that triggered it came from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. This story was quickly rejected by expert institutions and mainstream media outlets as an empirically baseless and even racist conspiracy theory — a verdict propagated through social media by fact checkers who deemed such claims to be misinformation.
Yuval Levin: The deeper question raised by the NIH grant overhaul

2 months ago | thenewatlantis.com | Yuval Levin |M. Anthony Mills

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Last week, in a classic Friday evening news dump, the Trump administration set off one of those frantic controversies that seem to be our fate for the next few years. A tweet from the official X account of the National Institutes of Health declared:The tweet was backed up by a more formal memo justifying the new policy on the grounds that private foundations insist on much lower overhead rates in their grants to universities than the government does.
R.F.K. Jr. and Trump's MAGA Science Agenda

Nov 27, 2024 | nytimes.com | M. Anthony Mills

The leader of the Republican Party and our country's next president has tapped a pro-choice scion of the country's most famous Democratic dynasty to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. In keeping with the bewildering dynamics of today's negative partisanship, conservative groups such as the Heritage Foundation have cheered the selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., while liberals have near categorically denounced him.
What Comes Next in the Information Wars?

Nov 22, 2024 | aei.org | Eli Lake |Ari N. Schulman |Christine Rosen |M. Anthony Mills

The 2024 election revealed significant shifts in how Americans seek information, whom they trust, and how they determine the truthfulness and integrity of the information they consume. What does this mean for our political culture and social cohesion in the years to come? Do we need to move beyond discussing “misinformation” and “disinformation” and devise new frameworks for understanding how social media platforms and other emerging technologies influence the information environment?
In Support of Science Policy: My Long-Read Q&A with Tony Mills

Nov 19, 2024 | aei.org | James Pethokoukis |M. Anthony Mills |Julia Cataneo

The US government has acted as major contributor to science research since the mid-20th century, both in terms of broad basic research and targeted projects. As industrial policy has gained traction, especially during the Biden Administration, the distinction between industrial and science policy has become increasingly obscure. Hybrid policies like the CHIPS and Science Act have spurred continued debate surrounding role and value of federal funding for science research.
Tony Mills: In Support of Science Policy

Nov 19, 2024 | aei.org | James Pethokoukis |M. Anthony Mills

The US government has acted as major contributor to science research since the mid-20th century, both in terms of broad basic research and targeted projects. As industrial policy has gained traction, especially during the Biden Administration, the distinction between industrial and science policy has become increasingly obscure. Hybrid policies like the CHIPS and Science Act have spurred continued debate surrounding role and value of federal funding for science research.
A Conversation with Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar: The Case for Federal Research and Development in the Age of Global Competition

Sep 24, 2024 | aei.org | With Claude Barfield |Chris Miller |M. Anthony Mills |James Pethokoukis

Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, will join AEI’s Chris Miller to discuss science and technology policy in an age of growing global competitiveness.
The Extinction of Experience: A Book Event with Christine Rosen

Aug 27, 2024 | aei.org | Christine Rosen |M. Anthony Mills |John Fortier |Chris Stirewalt

Human experiences are disappearing. Social media, gaming, and dating apps have usurped in-person interaction; handwriting is no longer prioritized in schools; and emotion is sooner expressed through likes and emoji than face-to-face conversations. In The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World, AEI’s Christine Rosen shows that when we embrace a life mediated by machines, we risk becoming more disconnected and machinelike ourselves. There is another way.
Tech ethics needs a breakthrough. The Amish have it.

Aug 14, 2024 | thenewatlantis.com | Louise Liebeskind |Ari N. Schulman |M. Anthony Mills

Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version “The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason.” We were doomed. All we could do was crash resources into space programs and get a few thousand of our best and brightest into orbit before a hard rain of meteors destroyed all life on the surface of the Earth.
A Liberalism Undaunted by First Principles

Jul 29, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Luis Parrales |Jonah Goldberg |Kevin Vallier |M. Anthony Mills

Following a decade of opposition, committed liberals gathered to tackle fundamental questions. Published July 29, 2024 If there’s one overarching story being told about the political trends of the past decade—about Brexit and Donald Trump, about an ascendant populism in Europe and South Asia, about the growing authoritarian threat of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping—it’s this: Liberalism is in decline.