About Jacob Carter
You Deserve Science-Informed Decisions
Our lives are significantly impacted by decisions that institutions make - decisions that often should be informed by science. A climate crisis, a looming mass extinction, environmental injustices, millions dead due to COVID-19 disinformation - all failures of decision makers to listen to science.
These catastrophes happen when the role of science to inform decisions is undermined. And that’s why we created this newsletter: to shine a light on the dark tactics and strategies used by different actors in politics, government, the private sector, media and other parts of society from local to state, national, and even international levels to sideline science from decisions that affect public health and the health of our environment.
Defending Science Must Include Scientific Integrity
To defend against political actors suppressing, manipulating, or sidelining science in decisions - our government bodies must agree to uphold scientific integrity. While the federal government has made great strides to implement scientific integrity policies over the past decade, only two state-level institutions across the US have such policies.