Direct government funding of science has to end. Here is why, and what should replace it. Some are making a big deal of a new paper in which "researchers found…

Briggs note: Since my take is that the government ought to get out of science grants altogether, I owe it to you to provide an insider's view (since I am…

Shocking report in science money news came out last week. Seems "Six fossil fuel companies funneled more than $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010…

Here is how the political magazine Nature opened its article "25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding: Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of…

Before we get to the peak pomposity of the Bethesda Declaration, a supreme How Dare You demand from credentialed and well-funded scientists to speak to the NIH manager, had you…

One reason there is so much Bad Science, as I have said many times, is that there is too much science. Rather, too much activity in the name of science.…

Many years ago my forestry consulting services were requested by a group of Catholic nuns, Benedictines, who own a large tract of land in the Pacific Northwest. It happened that…

I am moving the Class, which is rather specialized, to the end of the week. Yesterday the New York Times, the written order-of-the-day for the old school left, put out…