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Once touted as a treatment for COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine’s potential clinical value cannot be determined because of uncertainty, urgency, interests, and politics.

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The Endless Frontier Act Could Foster Technology Job Growth Across the United States

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Melissa Flagg, Paul Harris

For the United States to remain a leader in global science and technology, a fundamentally new approach to S&T policy is required, one that can leverage and optimize the diverse and dynamic system that has evolved, manage new risks, and better deliver benefits to society.

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Beyond the Endless Frontier

Science, the Endless Frontier is the 1945 policy document that articulates the dominant rationale for the US government’s investment in scientific research. The influence of Science, the Endless Frontier on science policy discussions and actions cannot be overstated—continuing with the recently proposed Endless Frontier Act now being debated in Congress. The essays here examine the legacy of Science, the Endless Frontier and evaluate the best path forward for science’s ability to deliver societal benefits.

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Who Benefits From Science?

Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Summer 2020

Advancing science and technology without regard to outcomes—as a new $100 billion technology bill introduced in Congress proposes to do—is relatively straightforward. Advancing science and technology in a way that helps to address the knowledge and innovation needs of the nation is much more difficult. But that’s the sort of challenge that today’s civil and political unrest (and the legacy of neglect on which they build) indicate should be at the center of how policy-makers organize public investments in science and technology.

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