How far should we rely on science to make political decisions? What makes a good science advisor — or a good science advice system? What do we do when the evidence is incomplete or controversial? What happens when science advice goes wrong and how can we fix it? We explore these questions, and many more, in conversation with the researchers, policymakers and communicators who make science advice happen around the world. The Science for Policy podcast is produced the Scientific Advice Mechani ...
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Good Vibes Only takes you on a journey to discover the weird and wacky world of wellness. Brought to you by the globally renowned skin and wellness expert Marie Reynolds who holds over 36 years’ experience within the skin and wellbeing field, listen in as we discuss Marie’s proven holistic lifestyle hacks to improve your overall health and wellbeing. Each week, Marie chats to leading experts in their field, to find out their ‘good vibe journey’ and discuss the ways in which they deal with da ...
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The Institute for Family, an organization of the Children's Home Society of North Carolina, is on a mission to hear from North Carolina residents about life and community relationships across the state. Tune in as local residents embark a storytelling adventure. Here they share lessons, advice, stories and reflect about life in their community. The Shine campaign is in partnership with StoryCorps Studios. Conversations here are snippets of a larger conversation, produced by the Institute, wh ...
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Eric Guilyardi on scientists engaging in public advocacy
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Should scientists get involved in public campaigning, lobbying or advocating for causes close to their heart — or close to their research? If so, what are the responsibilities of scientists and their employing institutions — and what are the potential pitfalls? In this episode, Toby Wardman takes a deep dive into these questions with Professor Eric…
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Alessandro Allegra on the role of secretariats in science advice
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We often shine the spotlight on the advisors whose high-profile work comes at the end of the science advice process, and on the academics whose research it's based on. But there is a third important actor in this process, often working informally, sometimes moving in the shadows – the faceless bureaucrat or administrator. Alessandro Allegra dedicat…
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Andrea Heilrath and Clara Roca-Sastre on arts in science advice
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People are forever saying that science advice should not just be about the natural sciences, but also about the social sciences, humanities and arts. And yet lumping those three categories together conceals a host of interesting complications. The contribution of the social sciences and humanities to policymaking is relatively easy to conceptualise…
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Karen Yeung on evidence use in AI policymaking
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Karen Yeung is an interdisciplinary professor at the University of Birmingham, specialising in AI. In this episode, she discusses with Toby Wardman the uses of AI in evidence-based policymaking, and the uses of evidence in AI policymaking.โดย Scientific Advice Mechanism
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Mikel Landabaso on science and innovation for development policy
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Mikel Landabaso, Director for Fair and Sustainable Economy in the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, knows a fair few things about the role of science and technology innovation in informing regional development policy and promoting regeneration. In this episode, he talks to Toby Wardman about how it works, how his advice has been taken, a…
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Maggie Dugan on bringing people together
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How do you bring scientists and policymakers together to generate creative solutions to thorny problems? How can you engineer a conversation on controversial issues that builds trust between allies rather than alienating opponents? And what's the secret to overcoming cynicism about either the process or the outcome? With a background in history, bu…
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Linda Lammensalo on writing a handbook for Finnish researchers
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The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters has been active in the science-for-policy space in Finland for decades, including in recent years playing a leading role in setting up an important science advice mechanism for the Finnish government. Now it has also published a comprehensive handbook for researchers, with advice and practical exercises to…
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Natalie Conner, Mentamer Conner and Oz Conner reflect on the love that unites their family. Menti and Oz express to their mother, Natalie, how Menti's adoption has influenced their lives. This is a powerful story of their experiences as a transracial family, and how their deep love and strong family bond have guided them through their unique journe…
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Clara Marts has focused her career on family preservation and well-being. She shares her thoughts on the important work of supporting families and doing everything it takes to help families stay together. This recording is produced by the Institute for Family, using interviews recorded by StoryCorps Studios. Hear the full episode on the StoryCorps …
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Luther Weathers shares with his wife, Tori Brasher-Weathers, the life lessons he learned from his father which have had an everlasting impact on his life trajectory. Listen to this open, honest, and loving story of how a dad’s love for his family has permeated the lives of his children and grandchildren for generations to come. This recording is pr…
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Lance Ollivierre and his former wife and friend, Claudia Perry, reflect on his experiences becoming a new father. Lance shares the excitement, joy, and differences between the birth of his son and the birth of his daughter. Listen to this heartwarming story of first-time parenting and the joy it brings to a family. This recording is produced by the…
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Pastor Jeffrey Davis and his daughter, Tori Brasher-Weathers, reflect on the lessons he learned growing up as an African American male in Greensboro, North Carolina in the 1970s a member of a large family. Pastor Davis reflects on the positive lessons he learned from his mother, father, and family advocate; while also sharing the challenges he face…
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In this emotional narrative, Tori Brasher-Weathers recounts the whirlwind experience of becoming a foster parent. Despite challenges, including her daughter's health issues and the birth mother's substance use struggles, Tori’s family navigates family well-being with compassion and dedication, understanding the complexities of family, empathy, well…
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Kim Sioux Montogomery talks about fostering creativity in children, and how being raised by a creatively expressive mother influenced her parenting style. She highlights the journey of her children into ballroom dancing, challenging stereotypes and embracing their unique cultural heritage within the sport. Hear the full episode on the StoryCorps St…
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Claudia Perry and Lance Ollivierre share insight on their decision to uproot their family and move to a more resourced area of town in pursuit of better educational opportunities for their children. Despite initial reservations and challenges, the move proved pivotal in shaping their children's academic success and uncovered some harsh truths about…
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Brandon Sharp and his social worker Tim Rollins reflect on Brandon's experiences in foster care, discussing both the challenges and positive aspects of his journey. Despite hardships, Brandon finds support from his current foster family and organizations like Say So at the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. See more about the Shine on North…
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Dr. Titus Hopper talks with new friend Cole Johnston about Dr. Hopper's career and family life. Dr. Hopper also talks about giving back and being a Black Santa. Hear the full episode on the StoryCorps Studio archive website. See more about the Shine on North Carolina Campaign on the Institute for Family website.…
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Dr. Sebrina Cook-Davis, Dr. Kim Lewter, and DraShonta Brinson Clip - Shine on North Carolina Campaign
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Dr. Sebrina Cooke-Davis speaks with her friends, mother and daughter Dr. Kim Lewter and DraShonta Brinson, about DraShonta's childhood and how they have built a community together. Hear the full episode on the StoryCorps Studio archive website. See more about the Shine on North Carolina Campaign on the Institute for Family website.…
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Sanaa shares her experiences of parenting her 9-year-old twins and her 16- and 23-year-old daughters. She reflects on the changes she has made to meet her children's individual needs. This inspiring story showcases warmth, love, compassion, and understanding in a mother's journey of caring for her children. The recording is produced by the Institut…
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"Family is important, but it is equally important to find people who feel like home." This powerful quote was shared by Madeline Attianese during a heartwarming conversation with her chosen mom Amanda Tapler. The conversation reflects on the strong bonds and situations created within their chosen family, which are just as impactful as those within …
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What does our most advanced AI, trained on the sum total of all human knowledge, have to say about the challenges of the science-policy interface? And can it tell a good joke? (Hint: The answer to that one is no.)โดย Scientific Advice Mechanism
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Good Vibes Only with Clara Cohen
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Clara Cohen has completed a 5 year program at the Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine level and has been a licensed acupuncturist since 2003 in Vancouver, Canada, focusing her practice in women's health and mental health. She's spoken at major conferences, taught acupuncture all over the world, and passionately educates through her AcuPro Academ…
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Episode 100: Live from Helsinki
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Welcome to our 100th episode! This one comes to you complete with a live audience at the University of Helsinki, kindly hosted by the SRI Congress 2024.Debating questionsWarm-up debates:(1) We should get rid of daylight saving time.(2) How would a dog wear trousers? Hind legs only, or all four legs on the bottom half of its body?(3) In which order …
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Claudia Chwalisz on science and expertise in innovative forms of government
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There are many different ways to make policies, and many different ways for science and evidence to impact on those policies. In western liberal democracies, we tend to focus on our specific, forgetting that across the world and across history our specific way of doing things is not the only way. Claudia Chwalisz, from the think-tank DemocracyNext,…
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Nicola Dotti on guidelines for science advice organisations
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In recent months, there's been a small explosion of guidelines and handbooks on how to do science advice. In today's episode, Toby Wardman takes a deep dive into Science Europe's recent guidance for research-funding and research-performing organisations, in conversation with their author, Nicola Dotti.…
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Andrea Emilio Rizzoli and Manuel Kugler on AI in science and science advice
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This is probably the last podcast in the world to get round to talking about how AI is changing the world -- but we wanted to wait until we had the right people in the room to talk specifically about AI in relation to science, policy, and science-for-policy. If you like this conversation with Professor Andrea Rizzoli and Manuel Kugler -- and you wi…
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Caitlin Chin-Rothmann on misinformation, science and the media ecosystem
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It's sometimes easy to forget that even the most well-designed science advice institution, and even the most persuasive advisor, are still operating as part of a broad ecosystem in which both policymakers and the general public are exposed to vast quantities of ostensibly factual information of varying quality, much of it mediated through algorithm…
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Vanesa Weyrauch and Leandro Echt on why context matters
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Why does evidence sometimes land and sometimes not? Why do some policies fail even though the evidence suggests they should succeed? And what can we do about it? Saying "it's all about the context" is easy, but what does this actually mean? And more importantly, how can we make that into a useful insight in advance, rather than just a post-hoc just…
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Michael Bang Petersen on integrating psychology into policymaking
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Politicians don't really have a great understanding of the citizens they serve, according to Michael Bang Petersen. In place of evidence from decades of psychological research, they tend to substitute their own instincts and common sense, together with more or less apposite fragments of behavioural science and economics. Nowhere was this more evide…
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Dilek Fraisl on citizen science for policymaking
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When countries set themselves ambitious targets such as the UN sustainable development goals, then realise they don't have the evidence sources they need to monitor progress towards those targets, how do they square the circle? In some cases, it's with so-called 'citizen science', in which non-professional scientists gather and evaluate data — ofte…
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Lena Höglund-Isaksson, Behnam Zakeri and Zuelclady Araujo on modelling
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How do scientific models inform policymakers? How can they keep countries honest in international climate negotiations? When is uncertainty not so much of a problem? And how much does it matter if policymakers don't instantly grasp the ins and outs of a model which takes six months for scientists to learn? Join the SAM's Toby Wardman on a deep dive…
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Daniel Ospina and Judit Ungvári on science advice for climate negotiators
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Climate change negotiators preparing for UN summits must sift through a truly intimidating quantity of scientific material to familiarise themselves with the latest evidence. That's why Future Earth, along with the Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme, has delivered its pithy 'Ten New Insights on Climate Change' every year since 20…
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Good Vibes Only with Elle Mace
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Elle Mace is a Master Practitioner and therapeutic coach in eating disorders, obesity, body dysmorphia, nutrition and clinical weight loss. She is also a ILM Level 5 Coach & Mentor in life and positive psychology; menopause, relationships, neuroscience and self-worth. Ellemace.com Instagram Marie gives an insight into understanding with vibrations …
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Good Vibes Only with Claudia Dumond
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Claudia Dumond is a Holistic Health Coach & Founder of Minimondo with over 20 years experience in health & wellbeing. Her own experience has inspired her to empower others on their journey to wellbeing and to find ways to truly fall in love with a healthy lifestyle. She’s always loved motivating others to be their best, as a Personal Trainer of 15 …
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Patricia Gruber on science advice in the US state department
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Dr Patricia Gruber is the science and technology advisor to Antony Blinken, President Biden's secretary of state. In a wide-ranging conversation with Toby Wardman from the SAM, she discusses how she got her job, what it's like, and what she can and can't do. She also lays out the US's approach to international science diplomacy, including the wisdo…
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Marie Gaarder and Thomas Kelly on evidence for development policy
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International development is a major political priority in many countries, with billion-dollar budgets. But, as recently as 2006, the influential Center for Global Development published a damning report entitled 'When will we ever learn?', essentially arguing that the entire policy area had been built on a foundation of guesswork and good intention…
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Maja Fjaestad on the role of science in Sweden's Covid response
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Dr Maja Fjaestad, an academic with an engineering background, had grand plans when she was appointed Swedish state secretary for health. Unfortunately, this was in 2019, and less than a year later her job was completely transformed by the Covid outbreak. In this wide-ranging interview with Toby Wardman, Dr Fjaestad talks about what it was like bein…
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Panel discussion on science advice in a crisis
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In this special episode of the podcast recorded at a live event in 2023, four experts discuss the role of science advice in emergency situations: what challenges do science advisors face, and what opportunities should they seize? With Tina Comes, professor at Technical University Delft; Barbara Prainsack, professor at the University of Vienna and c…
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Bart van den Hurk and Jana Sillmann on storytelling
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In a scientific field as complex and multifaceted as climate modelling, how do you communicate the realities of concrete impacts to stakeholders and policymakers? Two IPCC scientists, Bart van den Hurk and Jana Sillmann, are working on so-called 'storylines' techniques, which generate high-resolution, interdisciplinary stories to help decision-make…
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Moniek Tromp on youth and diversity in science advice
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How diverse are the people who work on scientific advice -- and why does this matter? Should we be involving more young people as experts, and are there any trade-offs in doing so? What impact might changes in academic culture more broadly have on the quality and availability of evidence for policy? Professor Moniek Tromp, a founding member of the …
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Tome Sandevski and Michèle Knodt on informal science-policy fellowships
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Beyond the world of institutional design and formalised competences that tend to be the focus of science-for-policy scholarship, there are many less structured interfaces between the worlds of research and policymaking. One such well-established interface is the Mercator science-policy fellowship, run by three German universities and headed by Tome…
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Tim Marler & Sana Zakaria on gene editing and AI policy
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Drawing on their broad portfolio of exciting, sci-fi-sounding research areas, Tim Marler and Sana Zakaria from RAND Corporation talk in depth about how the latest scientific evidence on AI and gene-editing can best be communicated to policymakers nationally and globally. What are the hot topics? What decisions do policymakers face right now? Where …
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Glenn Fernandez on municipal science advice in the Philippines
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The Philippines is remarkably exposed to natural disasters, from earthquakes to typhoons to volcanic eruptions. Dr Glenn Fernandez, a disaster risk management expert, started his science advice career as a masters student and has continued ever since, helping cities and rural municipalities to prepare for and respond to emergencies. In this episode…
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Good Vibes Only with Isreal Ajose - Moon Phases
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Celebrity Astrologer Israel Ajose D.Psych.Astrol is a dedicated practitioner and teacher of astrology and tarot. He studied and completed full honours in psychological astrology at the centre of psychological astrology in London with Liz Greene. By combining traditional, mediaeval, and psychological methods, he offers in depth consultations, which …
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Veera Mitzner on events as science-for-policy activities
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Veera Mitzner is the organiser of the Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress, a major annual event which brings together thousands of researchers, stakeholders and, yes, policymakers. But how do events like this fit into the broader evidence-for-policy landscape?โดย SAPEA
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Stella Ladi on science advice in Greece
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Greece does not have a long tradition of institutionalised science advisory mechanisms, but after dealing relatively well with Covid, the situation is starting to change. Professor Stella Ladi, an expert on evidence-informed policymaking at home and internationally, talks to Toby Wardman about the past, present and future of science advice in Greec…
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Good Vibes Only with Daniel Sandler
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Daniel Sandler is an international professional makeup artist with over 35 years in the beauty industry. Daniel is famed for his natural but glamorous signature style, his warmth and integrity that brings out the best in every single person he works with. In 2005, he was inspired to create his own brand: a game-changing collection of multi-use chee…
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Ottmar Edenhofer on giving climate advice in Europe
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The EU climate law created a new institution, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change, which started work just this year and targets the European Commission, Parliament and Council. Its chair, Professor Ottmar Edenhofer, took time out of his busy schedule to share with us what it's like setting up a new science advice body and how …
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Good Vibes Only with Amanda Place
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Amanda Place is the founder of Sculptrition who specializes in health and fitness coaching and has been in the industry for over a decade. Known for delivering sustainable weight loss results to busy women all over the world, she consistently sends out the message that diets and quick fixes don’t work in the long term and can help you optimise your…
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Hugh Pope on experts in sortition-based democracies
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Elections are not the only way to power democratic decision-making. A system of government by random selection of citizens, or 'sortition', has been around since at least ancient Athens and, as Hugh Pope explains, has never quite disappeared. But if we adopt such a radically different way of making policy, what are the implications of science for p…
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