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Obviously, education in critical thinking, and especially in social sciences such as economics, is necessary.
That’s why interrogation techniques should be based on brain and behavioral sciences, not on the fevered imaginings of Hollywood producers that are believed by politicians, supported by lawyers, and carried out by amateur torturers.
Fortunately, the realization that brain and behavioral sciences should be at the core of interrogation practice and intelligence work is gaining ground.
Under pressure from the board, Watson resigned his position as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an institution that under his leadership has become one of the world’s leading research and educational institutions in the biological sciences.
First, he profoundly influenced not only his own field of economics, but also the social sciences more broadly.
At issue is the oldest debate in the social sciences.
Li’s analysis points to the related ascendance of senior officials trained in law and the social sciences – providing a skill set that is more closely aligned with the vision of a consumer society.
There is no question that the academic enterprise has become increasingly global, particularly in the sciences.
Advances in molecular sciences, corresponding to the sequencing of the human genome in the 1980’s, led to the identification of all the human proteins – large, complex molecules necessary for many of the body’s functions.
Identifying the defective molecular parts, known as the drug targets, should have made addressing the causes of disease easier, and would revolutionize the pharmaceutical sciences.
In the “hard” sciences, such as mathematics and physics, the truth can be established more transparently, making these fields less prone to scientific misconduct.
But branches like medicine, humanities, philosophy, economics, and other social sciences, which rely more heavily on openness and imagination, can be manipulated more easily to suit the goals of bureaucrats.
Cancer epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat identifies several factors, including “the success of the environmental movement; a deep-seated distrust of industry; the public’s insatiable appetite for stories related to health, which the media duly cater to; and – not least – the striking expansion of the fields of epidemiology and environmental health sciences and their burgeoning literature.”
Today, despite the democratization of access to culture, is noontime not in the arts but in the sciences.
In the sciences, however, even a middling talent is on an upward escalator.
How is one to extend to the pure and applied sciences the techniques of presentation, of graphic intelligibility long established in the arts?
One of the disabling weaknesses of current culture is its unwillingness or inability to engage with the dance of the spirit in the sciences.
With few exceptions, Italian recipients of Nobel prizes, the Fields Medal in mathematics, the Pritzker Prize in architecture, or the Breakthrough Prize in life sciences have spent their careers abroad.
Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win two, and the only person to do so in two different sciences: physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911.
Much has changed since then, and gender equality in the sciences has greatly improved.
For example, the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science awards program, which honors female researchers working in the life and physical sciences, is now in its 20th year.
Nonetheless, gender parity in the sciences remains a distant goal.
Of the 599 Nobel Prizes awarded in the sciences since 1901, only 18 have gone to women, just 3% of the total.
Achieving gender equity, diversity, and inclusion in the sciences will require cooperation across many sectors.
The current trend implies deteriorating conditions for their teachers as well, particularly in the social sciences and humanities, as academics face tighter restrictions on scholarly exchanges with the West.
Advances in biological sciences and technologies, meanwhile, are increasing our ability to control disease and aging, boost food production, and manage pollution.
CEU now ranks among the top 100 universities in the world in the social sciences – a remarkable achievement for an academic newcomer.
In the life sciences, for example, foundations find it hard to identify high-level Europeans for awards.
Even pessimists acknowledge the incipient wave of technology in life sciences, artificial intelligence, and robotics around the world.
Similarly, the National Science Foundation and the scientific research arm of the US Department of Energy receive a combined total of about $12 billion per year, which they use to advance a wide variety of goals in engineering, energy efficiency, and green energy, and the natural and social sciences.
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