New Voices
This new journal will examine vital issues that contain a core of science or technology. They are issues that are ultimately settled through the public processes and free markets of US democracy. All too often, however, the voices of the scientific and engineering communities have been missing from that public process; which, in a world increasingly shaped by science
and technology, can mean dangerously impoverished policy. Issues will give expression here to those voices, among others; to draw them into greater dialogue with the other contenders in the public process; and hence to enrich the marketplace of ideas and the wisdom of public and private decisionmaking.
Perspectives
From the Academies
With this premiere of Issues in Science and Technology, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine launch a new publication dedicated to the… Read More
Features
Science and the Public Process: Why the Gap Must Close
Read MoreDaniel Yankelovich argues that it is time leading scientists took a more active role in public policymaking. He calls for the institutions of science to lead the way in rewriting the social contract that sustains both science and, increasingly, our technological society.