Science Competes: Informing Policy in a Time of Distrust, Fracture, and Chaos

When science competes with myriad influences in public policymaking, how can we ensure that it does so effectively?

Policymakers, like most people today, have a world of information within easy reach, much of it wrong. How, amid the chaos and misdirection of our day’s information ecosystem, can science compete for the attention and trust of those who make public policy—especially at a time when issues like proliferating infectious diseases and climate change put a premium on accurate and rel...