Briefing #3, 30 June 2006
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In 2006, we launched a new email briefing about our Center’s science policy work. We are working to improve how science and technology policies address societal needs. Please let us know what information you might like to receive by emailing us.

About the Center

Prometheus is the Center’s weblog. Recent posts:

• The Climate Policy Equivalent of Graham-Rudman-Hollings

• New anti-wind politics details. Oh the irony, Senator Warner

• The Curious Case of Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise in the IPCC TAR

Sample of Recent Publications:

• Is the time right to rethink NASA as an institution?
  Pielke, R.A., Jr., 2006. How to Break up NASA. Bridges, Vol. 10, June.
  

• An analysis of the recent failure of a referendum in Italy to repeal a law limiting medically assisted fertilization, and the broader implications for science and technology in society:
  Corbellini, G., 2006. Reproductive medicine, politics and religion in Italy: Reflections on the 2005 referendum, Ogmius newsletter, Issue 15.
  

• In the climate change debate, as in others, we should give greater weight to peer reviewed science produced through the scientific method than to claims produced by less rigorous methods and that are paid by, and designed to benefit, financial and political elites:
  Lahsen, M., 2005. Technocracy, Democracy, and U.S. Climate Politics: The Need for Demarcations. Science, Technology & Human Values, Vol. 30, No.1, pp. 137-169.

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