Think Tank Quickies (#365)
- Why we should stop treating peer review as the gold standard of research.
- More scientific papers should be retracted; prank jabs at academic papers; broken system lets doctors omit industry ties in journals.
- Kiron Skinner, who recently took leave as a researcher at the Hoover Institution to serve in the Trump Administration, forced out as State Department's director of policy planning.
- Can you publish virtually anything in scientific journals? Predatory publisher fined $50 million.
- Let policy wonks proliferate: Xi Jinping is encouraging a boom in "independent" Chinese think tanks.
- North Korea Strategy Center (NKSC): a Seoul-based think tank founded by a North Korean defector.
- DC bucket lists overflow with think tank desires?
- Brookings scholars Carol O'Cleireacain and Alice Rivlin had pushed for DC population growth.
- Wealthy businessmen such as textile magnate Roger Milliken funded anti-globalization studies and think tanks; former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca funded Clyde Prestowitz's Economic Strategy Institute.
