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Author Archives: Adam Briggle
The Natural Gas Bridge to Nowhere
Natural gas is often touted as a “bridge fuel” to get us from coal to renewable sources like wind and sun. I have long been suspicious of this metaphor…we should remember that coal used to be described as a bridge … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental policy, Gas Fracking, Uncategorized
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The Real Danger Is to Research – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Real Danger Is to Research – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education. Article argues that the recent move to censor publications on bird flu virulence goes too far. The board that made this decision lacks the relevant expertise, … Continue reading
The Uneasy Technocratic Alliance
John Siegmund set the tone for the City of Denton’s appointed Gas Well Task Force. He articulated a classic engineering technocratic position that goes as follows. The problem with fracking is capitalism. The short-term profit motive of capitalists leads to … Continue reading
Drinking from a Fire Hose
Dispatch from the fourth meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (PCSBI) – Washington, D.C. After releasing its report on synthetic biology, today the PCSBI took on a new topic: emerging diagnostic and predictive tools. In … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, NIH, STEM Policy
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