Thee House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has published its first report on the use of scientific advice to government in the COVID19 crisis (https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/135/science-and-technology-committee-commons/publications/). This looks at the evolution of structures for transmitting and discussing scientific advice in government, but worries about the longer-term openness of this process. They say (p.18): “…it remains… Read More Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee worries about long term openness of scientific advice to Government

There is a lot of talk about the “new open science”, but a study from the LSE does not find more openness in terms of data https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2020/11/30/covid-19-where-is-the-data/