Science on Solid Ground: NAS Releases Report to Restore American Science - Highlighted Article

From: National Association of Scholars

By: National Association of Scholars

Date: August 19, 2025

Science on Solid Ground: NAS Releases Report to Restore American Science

New York, NY; August 19, 2025—The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has published the fifth and final report in the Shifting Sands: Keeping Count of Government Science project, False Positives: The Irresponsibility Crisis of Science Policy, which provides a policy-oriented conclusion to the report series.

“False Positives delivers practical solutions to the widespread failures that constitute a crisis of government, and not just a crisis of science,” said the report’s co-author, David Randall, NAS Director of Research. “We seek to swiftly redress the irreproducibility crisis plaguing American science and government to restore the scientific process and rebuild the trust lost by the American people.”

The four prior reports under the Shifting Sands project—PM2.5 Regulation (2021), Food Frequency Questionnaires (2022), Confounded Errors of Public Health Policy Response (2023), and Zombie Psychology, Implicit Bias Theory, and the Implicit Association Test (2024)—examined how irreproducible science affects select areas of government policy and regulation by different federal, state, and local agencies. (continue reading)

Science on Solid Ground: NAS Releases Report to Restore American Science