- New Research Shows How the Meat Industry Infiltrated Universities to Obstruct Climate Policy https://civileats.com/2024/03/06/new-research-shows-how-the-meat-industry-infiltrated-universities-to-obstruct-climate-policy/ 2 comments climate
- Fact Sheet: President Joe Biden to Announce First-Ever White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, An Effort Led by First Lady Jill Biden and the White House Gender Policy Council https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/11/13/fact-sheet-president-joe-biden-to-announce-first-ever-white-house-initiative-on-womens-health-research-an-effort-led-by-first-lady-jill-biden-and-the-white-house-gender-policy-council/ 107 comments politics
- The El Paso Chamber’s claims that a proposed climate policy would wipe out half of the city’s jobs in less than a decade is based on faulty assumptions, critics say, and an energy researcher says that may have led to flawed results. https://elpasomatters.org/2023/03/19/el-paso-climate-policy-impact-may-6-election/ 3 comments energy
- Climate policy dragged into culture wars as a ‘delay’ tactic, finds study | Researchers call for recognition of latest online strategies used to derail climate action https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/09/climate-policy-dragged-into-culture-wars-as-a-delay-tactic-finds-study?CMP=share_btn_tw 7 comments climate
- Industry lobbying on WHO overshadowing public health policy, researchers suggest — Corporate dollars elevate commercial interests over health expertise https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953241 4 comments science
- One in five carbon credits under Australia’s main climate policy are ‘junk’ cuts, research finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/22/one-in-five-carbon-credits-under-australias-main-climate-policy-are-junk-cuts-research-finds 16 comments worldnews
- MIT researchers say you’re no safer from Covid indoors at 6 feet or 60 feet in new study challenging social distancing policies https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/23/mit-researchers-say-youre-no-safer-from-covid-indoors-at-6-feet-or-60-feet-in-new-study.html 25 comments nottheonion
- Should We Be More Worried About the Economy? - Center for Economic and Policy Research https://cepr.net/should-we-be-more-worried-about-the-economy/ 10 comments politics
- Researchers reviewed thousands of gun policy studies and teased out a consensus https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/23/definitive-guide-which-gun-safety-policies-actually-work/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook 14 comments politics
- Researchers Detail How Slashing Pentagon Budget Could Pay for Medicare for All While Creating Progressive Foreign Policy Americans Want https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/10/17/researchers-detail-how-slashing-pentagon-budget-could-pay-medicare-all-while 13 comments politics
- Analysis | Will voters support Elizabeth Warren’s trade policy? Our research says yes. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/30/will-voters-support-elizabeth-warrens-trade-policy-our-research-says-yes/ 3 comments politics
- For the first time, researchers at UCLA have shown a causal link between print media coverage of U.S. gun control policy in the wake of mass shooting events and increases in firearm acquisition, particularly in states with the least restrictive gun laws http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/news-coverage-of-gun-control-policy-linked-to-increase-in-gun-purchases 29 comments science
- U.S. Global Abortion Policy Causing Deaths, Researchers Say https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/u-s-global-abortion-policy-causing-deaths-researchers-say-1.7336139 8 comments politics
- China introduces ‘social’ punishments for scientific misconduct - Offending researchers could face restrictions on jobs, loans and business opportunities under a system tied to the controversial social credit policy. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07740-z 3 comments technology
- New research suggests Brexit was directly caused by UK policy of austerity https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/aug/02/austerity-and-cuts-like-bedroom-tax-directly-led-to-brexit-academic-research-suggests-politics-live?page=with:block-5b62b57ae4b0081aec3ba082#block-5b62b57ae4b0081aec3ba082 16 comments worldnews
- The research on race that explains Trump’s family separation policies https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/6/19/17478970/trump-family-separation-immigration-policy-racism 3 comments politics
- I am Parag Khanna, author of Connectography and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. AMA https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/4yogfe/i_am_parag_khanna_author_of_connectography_and/ 61 comments geopolitics
- Climate contrarian data interpretations judged misleading in blind test - "Across two groups of experts and across six different scenarios, contrarian claims were judged to be misleading, inaccurate, and unsuitable for policy advice,” the researchers wrote in the paper. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/05/18/climate-change-doubters-really-really-arent-going-to-like-this-study/ 7 comments science
- The World Is Not As Hungry As You Might Think: Deaths due to mass famine have plummeted, according to data from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide. http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/16/447157158/the-world-is-not-as-hungry-as-you-might-think 166 comments worldnews
- Climate Change Deemed Growing Security Threat by Military Researchers. Pentagon officials said the report would affect military policy. “The department certainly agrees that climate change is having an impact on national security" http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/us/politics/climate-change-deemed-growing-security-threat-by-military-researchers.html?_r=0 22 comments politics
- Torture and Research Experimentation: Official Policy under Bush and Obama. Today and since the early 1950s, CIA operatives conducted physically harsh and psychologically crippling mind control experiments, turning human beings into mush http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m66955&hd=&size=1&l=e 3 comments politics
- Comment period for open access to research is open at the Office of Science and Technology Policy http://bit.ly/4wzs3k 3 comments science
- Whether by design, ignorance or lack of research, the New Prohibition policy has been nothing short of devastating to people of color – black Americans in particular. http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_frosty_w_071129_war_on_drugs_3a_new_ji.htm 3 comments politics
- New poll shows massive backlash to anti-LGBTQ school policies. A new Navigator Research Poll shows that book bans, school sports policies, and Don’t Say Gay bills are wildly unpopular https://www.losangelesblade.com/2023/08/30/new-poll-shows-massive-backlash-to-anti-lgbtq-school-policies/ 151 comments politics
- Researchers say "proforestation" policies protecting standing forest are most effective way to draw excess CO2 out of atmosphere https://www.ehn.org/forest-carbon-sequestration-2649749746.html 3 comments worldnews
- Conservatives are just as likely as liberals to avoid gluten in their diet, finds a new study (n=1,000). This was true even when researchers broke political ideology down into social policy and economic policy. “Be careful about stereotypes — food fads unite us all”. https://www.psypost.org/2019/10/study-finds-liberals-are-no-more-likely-to-express-gluten-avoidance-than-conservatives-54644 1289 comments science
- USDA relocates expert economists, researchers who challenge Trump policies: report https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/445151-usda-relocates-expert-economists-researchers-who-challenge-trump 3 comments politics
- Corporate sponsorship diverts research and distorts public policy, report finds https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/sep/26/corporate-sponsorship-diverts-research-and-distorts-public-policy-report-finds 8 comments science
- In Latest 'Alarming' Attack on Science, Pruitt Reportedly Moving to Restrict Use of Research in EPA Policy https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/03/17/latest-alarming-attack-science-pruitt-reportedly-moving-restrict-use-research-epa 19 comments politics
- Every year American taxpayers spend more than $100 million to produce original, top-notch policy research; In classic Washington fashion, the Congressional Research Service's reports are officially available only to members of Congress and their staff. http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/the-publicly-funded-reports-you-cant-read-000293 8 comments politics
- Synthetic weed is sending more kids to the E.R. You can thank federal drug policy for that. "... marijuana prohibition creates a niche for products like Cloud 9, it is driving people away from a well-researched drug that humans have been consuming for thousands of years ..." http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/10/16/synthetic-weed-is-sending-more-kids-to-the-e-r-you-can-thank-federal-drug-policy-for-that/?tid=rssfeed 56 comments politics
- Tony Abbott steps up "assault" on Australian environmental policy - the man who described climate change as "absolute crap" doubled down on his hostility to almost all things green with cuts to research and renewable energy that “would set the country's climate change policy back 20 years.” http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/analysis/2344814/tony-abbott-steps-up-assault-on-australian-environmental-policy 229 comments worldnews
- Concerns about the “only child” practice in China have been expressed before. Now researchers present new evidence that these children are less trusting, less competitive, more pessimistic, less conscientious and more risk-averse than people born before the policy was implemented. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/little-emperors-study-says-chinese-born-under-one-child-policy-cautious-less-competitive/2013/01/10/01321ebe-5b56-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html 12 comments worldnews
- The Conservative Psyche: How Ordinary People Come to Embrace Paul Ryan's Cruelty. Scientific research into the way we think explains the reasons decent people wind up supporting horrific policies. http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/conservative-psyche-how-ordinary-people-come-embrace-paul-ryans-cruelty 210 comments politics
- Indirect measures of bias etc like the IAT do not work. The test results vary and have little predictive value or association with real world behavior. All these issues for a 30-year-old research tradition that has been extremely successful at selling itself to policy makers and the public at large. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wcs.1569 3 comments science
- Why a DC Public Relations Firm Pretended to Be Bolivian on Facebook - Center for Economic and Policy Research https://cepr.net/why-a-dc-public-relations-firm-pretended-to-be-bolivian-on-facebook/ 7 comments politics
- Researchers found that physical distancing policies enacted nationally in 46 countries prevented an estimated 1.57 million cases of COVID-19 over a two-week period, representing a 65 per cent reduction in new cases. https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/world-news-physical-distancing-linked-with-significant-reduction-in-covid-19-transmission-study/357715 594 comments science
- Drop in violence associated with smoke-free policy at psychiatric hospital. New King’s College London research reveals a 39% drop in physical assaults, both between patients and towards staff, with findings published in The Lancet Psychiatry. https://spotlight.kcl.ac.uk/2017/06/15/drop-violence-associated-smoke-free-policy-psychiatric-hospital/ 8 comments science
- Scientists to march through Ottawa in white lab coats in protest at cuts to research, and increasing environmental damage due to government policies (x-post from /r/canada) http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/jul/09/canada-stephen-harper-revolt-scientists 24 comments science
- Researcher studied introduction, passage, and legal defense of Texas House Bill 2 (TX HB2), a targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) law & found language consistent with benevolent sexism was used in context of policy making to justify restricting women’s access to pre-viability abortion. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11199-021-01244-3 2 comments science