Daily Circuit

Today, The Economist asks whether we’ve put too much blind faith in scientific research – at grave risk to ourselves and advances in medicine and technology: A simple idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated a vast body of knowledge. Read more →
Even as the country breathes a sigh of relief at the end of the shutdown, many are still angry that our government appears to be so dysfunctional. But in an op-ed in today’s Los Angeles Times, New York University Professor Jonathan Zimmerman says that this dysfunction is nothing new, and that our country has a Read more →