The Center for American progress offers "a thumbnail of advances in science that will have long-lasting impacts on science policy—or advances in science policy that we predict will have long-lasting impacts on science". In this retrospective they list the twelve most popular features they ran in their Science Progress ezine over the past year. Some of them dealt with major controversies over political interference with science at the Environmental Protection Agency, the teaching of creationism, and women’s access to reproductive health services. Others tackled challenges of a networked world, or considered how policy can better harness the talents of a burgeoning scientific workforce.
See The Top 12 Science Progress Stories of 2008
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