Category: Science and Politics

• January 12, 2017

  A Media Ecosystem for an Age of Fracture

  by Shreeharsh Kelkar, University of California at Berkeley As the dust settles after Donald Trump’s shocking upset of Hillary Clinton in the US Presidential Election, and we await the long-term fallout, I am left wondering about what “objectivity” in media institutions will—and should—look like in the future in this age of political polarization. How might we—social…
• January 11, 2017

  Knowledge and Expertise after the Election

  By Dan Morrison, Vanderbilt University Note: This is a revised version of the leading essay in the November 2016 issue of Skatology. Dan Morrison takes full responsibility for its content, and thanks Scott Frickel for his comments on an earlier draft. Donald J. Trump is President-elect here in the United States. Articles like those Joe Waggle…
• January 11, 2017

  In This Together

  By Elise Paradis†, Michael W. Freeman*, Michael Kim*, Patricia J. Leake*, and Umesh Poopalarajah* University of Toronto † Corresponding author * Equal contributors, in alphabetical order We, the authors of this text, were brought together in a research methods class taught by Elise Paradis at the University of Toronto, Canada. We are a diverse, interdisciplinary…
• January 11, 2017

  New Essays on the US Election

  Over the next day or two, we will publish here three essays on the recent US election and the potential impacts of a Trump administration on science, science policy, and the state of knowledge and (perhaps) ignorance. Please do watch our Resource Hub page, under construction, for more resources.
• November 4, 2016

  Presidential Outlook on Science and Technology Issues

  by Joe McCartney Waggle, Communications Committee “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” So began the worst-case scenario speech sitting in President Richard Nixon’s coat pocket as the Apollo 11 mission prepared to leave the moon in July…
• March 4, 2016

  TECHNOLOGY THAT “WORKS FOR US AND NOT AGAINST US”

  During the 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama proposed that one of the four “big questions” that the United States needs to answer is: “How do we make technology work for us, and not against us–especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges?” For our inaugural blog post, the SKAT Publications Committee invited…