Time to Take Matters into Your Own Hands

In case the good folks at the US National Academy of Sciences are growing tired of releasing their election-year reports advocating good government practices to promote science and technology, Chris Mooney understands. His article at Science Progress says that "these valuable reports have been more or less ignored" by the Bush administration. Perhaps in response, recent reports have begun to "call upon the nation's scientific community -- and particularly its membership societies -- to appoint its most promising young researchers to serve in government science and technology posts," Mooney adds.