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Climate and HIV Science - Why the Different Trajectories? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
Patrick J. Michaels I continue to ponder the extent to which public funding, in Terence’s words, “has introduced perverse incentives and has damaged the intellectual autonomy of the universities,” an...
Science in Both the Public and the Private Sector 23 Aug 2013 | 11:29 pm
Victoria Harden With respect to public funding for biomedical research and its impact on morbidity and mortality, I must take issue with Terrence Kealey. In the United States, government funding for...
Dialogue among Participants 23 Aug 2013 | 09:33 pm
The Editors The Editors are pleased to present a lighly edited e-mail exchange that took place recently among some of the particpants. Victoria Harden: David Guston writes, [O]ne might imagine w...
Why Philanthropy Comes Up Short 21 Aug 2013 | 12:06 am
David Guston I’m certainly pleased to not be categorically wrong, as Professor Kealey allows. The challenge now is to understand to what extent philanthropic research support might be able to replac...
Replies on Public Goods and Crowding Out 19 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Terence Kealey I thank everyone for their responses to my essay. Let me in turn respond to them. Victoria Harden makes a strong defence for the public funding of health research, yet the improve...
The State Will Always Need Science 14 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
David Guston I begin my defense of a role for public funding of scientific research from a counterintuitive position: I agree with Terence Kealey in the general outline, if not all the particulars, o...
State-Funded Science: It's Worse Than You Think! 12 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
Patrick J. Michaels Terence Kealey’s insightful essay is likely to provoke a vigorous debate among libertarians on the utility of publicly funded science. He concludes that “the public funding of res...
History Supports Government Funding for Public Health 7 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Victoria Harden As a medical historian asked to respond to Professor Kealey’s essay, I was struck by his focus on technology rather than basic science and his lack of discussion about research for hu...
The Case against Public Science 5 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
Terence Kealey For libertarians, economic growth is the growth that barely speaks its name. That is because conventional opinion asserts that economic growth is the gift of government. Secondary issu...
The True Value of Bitcoin 31 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm
Patrick Murck I’m often asked what a bitcoin is worth right now, referring to the price in fiat currency a unit is valued at, and I usually respond that I don’t know and I don’t care. The true value ...
