CSPO in the News Archive


January 2005

 

The Times Higher Education Supplement, January 28, 2005

Before you build that nanobot...: A social scientist, Rob Doubleday, is posing awkward questions on behalf of the public at Cambridge's new centre for nanoresearch.

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Eurek Alert, January 18, 2005

ASU researcher says we should better prepare for future calamities: In an article in the current issue of The New Republic, "Rising Tide--The Tsunami's Real Cause," Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke, Jr. say that tying the tsunami and other natural disasters to human induced climatic change "is both scientifically and morally unsupportable."

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The New Republic, January 17, 2005

Rising Tide: The Tsunami's Real Cause: Daniel Sarewitz and Roger A. Pielke, Jr. write about  the need to reduce vulnerability to disasters.

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Washington Post, January 10, 2005

Accepting Politics in Science: Roger A. Pielke, Jr.'s Opinion Column on separating science from politics on federal science and technology advisory panels.

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Toronto Sun, January 4, 2005

Photo-ops and excuses just don't cut it: An Arizona State professor, Daniel Sarewitz, says natural disasters have increased from 100 per year in the 1960s to as many as 500 per year after 2000, as people are allowed by technology or driven by poverty to live in vulnerable lands.

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New York Times, January 2, 2005

The Future of Calamity: The world has already seen a sharp increase in such "natural" disasters - from about 100 per year in the early 1960's to as many as 500 per year by the early 2000's, said Daniel Sarewitz, a professor at Arizona State University.

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Red Nova, January, 2005

Democratizing Science: cites David Guston.

 

 



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