Author Posts Archive: Richard O Lempert
Preserving the U.S. competitive edge in science requires many things to happen, but most immediately we must maintain English as the lingua franca of science, and open the doors to all who want to study science in our country.
The American public’s limited interest in science news and troubling grasp of basic scientific knowledge would seem to threaten sound and ethical policymaking whenever policy turns on science. But go beyond the immediate polling data and there are reasons not to despair.