Sarewitz Saves Science?

Published: Dec. 7, 2016, 1:19 a.m.

b'Dan Sarewitz joins Heather Ross to chat about his 2016 article in The New Atlantis: "Saving Science From Itself." Dan and Heather talk about the problems with publishing volume and opaque academic language, and why scientists should be more like independent filmmakers.\\n\\n\\u2022Guest: Dan Sarewitz\\n\\u2022About Dan Sarewitz: http://cspo.org/people/sarewitz-daniel/\\n\\u2022Check out Dan\\u2019s article, Saving Science: http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/saving-science\\n\\u2022Listen to a discussion between Dan and The New Atlantis on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/tnajournal/interview-about-saving-science\\n\\u2022Learn more about the Master of Science and Technology Policy program at ASU: https://sfis.asu.edu/mstp-welcome\\n\\u2022The Toxic Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell examines ways of reducing the use of toxic chemicals. Their work eschews traditional models, focusing on the \\u2018solution space\\u2019 rather than the \\u2018problem space\': http://www.turi.org/\\n\\u2022The National Breast Cancer Coalition is another organization that has looked at different ways of approaching problem-solving: http://www.breastcancerdeadline2020.org/\\n\\u2022In 2014, a White House unit on Behavioral Psychology was formed. Does this represent a changing stance on the relationship between science and policy? http://thepsychreport.com/current-events/head-of-white-house-nudge-unit-maya-shankar-speaks-about-newly-formed-us-social-and-behavioral-sciences-team/'