"Pricing El Niño is not the same as preventing its loss of life. Yet, many of those acting on its forecasts are using them to move money, not people, out of harm’s way," writes Justin S. Mankin in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4huP0HI “Strengthening replication and reproducibility is not an expression of diminished confidence in science. It is an investment in science’s capacity to correct itself,” writes Jay Bhattacharya in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3UZFXXT "Actions that directly harm or destroy animals remain prohibited, but altering the places where they feed, shelter, or reproduce may no longer qualify as harm in the same way. This distinction makes little ecological sense," writes Charles C. Davis in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4rpNmvG "To ensure that GLP-1s reduce rather than deepen health inequities, governments and health care leaders must erect guardrails for commercial forces jumping on the GLP-1 bandwagon," write Luc L. Hagenaars and Laura A. Schmidt in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3SHbgWy Who checks what AI can do?
In a new #ScienceEditorial, Thorsten Holz argues that verification should not be considered "a brake on frontier AI research; it is the condition under which its results become scientific evidence." scim.ag/4qy0r5K "Those who believe in free, open, and responsive institutions must recognize how critically linked science is to democracy itself and defend its integrity with every tool at their disposal," writes John Palfrey in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4i9awDH "Britain has rearranged the machinery of its science policy, not undermined its foundations. The change could sharpen the contribution of UK research to … economic renewal …," write Geraint Rees and James Wilsdon in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/3RGz1gI "… India may pioneer a template for genuine AI sovereignty that other nations can follow," write Akash Kapur and Arvind Narayanan in a new #ScienceEditorial. scim.ag/4cmHr3X