The last year has seen unprecedented challenges to the scientific enterprise. While much of the damage is attributable to baseless attacks on scientific truth and to actions that are advantageous to politicians, the scientific enterprise has many features and shortcomings that have made these attacks more impactful and easier to enact. So, while one important project—carried out by university and association leaders with their legal teams—is to counteract the attacks, another equally important project is to envision a new scientific enterprise that will be more inclusive, accurate, publicly responsible, and better prepared for future attacks. This talk will raise ideas to do the latter.
Holden Thorp (Sun,) studied this question.