Daniel Sarewitz

I think you’re confusing several things here. I guess it would be great if no one lived near the San Andreas fault, but that ain’t in the cards. In the...

This article was originally published on As We Now Think, a site edited by the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State...

We can’t address climate change without carbon reduction, but we also can’t afford to neglect a vital second option: carbon capture.

It’s time for you to take step No. 1 and acknowledged that there is a problem that you are powerless to resolve—that the moment you and your date...

Democratically weighing up the benefits and risks of gene editing and artificial intelligence is a political endeavour, not an academic one, says Daniel Sarewitz.

Scientists must publish less, says Daniel Sarewitz, or good research will be swamped by the ever-increasing volume of poor work.

Daniel Sarewitz: Turning the rejection of scientific expertise into a pathology mistakenly presents individual ignorance as the bottleneck in political disagreements

The tired tropes of “evidence-based policy” and “political will” actually seem to have some meaning under these special conditions.