On the afternoon of Friday, February 7, as staff members were getting ready to leave the headquarters of the National Institutes of Health, just…
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Donald Trump’s first term saw a great deal of political polarization. Right- and left-leaning Americans disagreed about environmental regulation and immigration. They disagreed about…
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For decades in the United States, scientists and government officials have coexisted in a mostly peaceable and productive symbiosis. The government has funded science…
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Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical…
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Twice during his Senate confirmation hearings at the end of January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., America’s new health secretary, brought up a peer-reviewed study…
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America’s health secretaries, almost as a rule, have résumés manicured to a point of frictionlessness. Once in a while one will attract scandal in…
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Five years ago, the coronavirus pandemic struck a bitterly divided society. Americans first diverged over how dangerous the disease was: just a flu (as…
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President Donald Trump might have campaigned on lowering the prices of groceries, but even as egg prices have become a minor national crisis, he…
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“I personally think that the post–World War II system of big research universities funded heavily by the government will not continue.” That’s how one…
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