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Join NAS for "Confounded Errors," "Restoring the Sciences: Is Science Broken?", and more.

Dear John,

We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars tomorrow, July 18, at 2 pm ET for a discussion on the effects of public health policy failures during the COVID-19 Pandemic ([link removed]) . We also invite you to join us on Friday, July 21, at 3 pm ET for a discussion on whether or not science is broken ([link removed]) , and on Thursday, July 27, at 2 pm ET for a discussion on what tactics and strategy have worked best to fight racial preferences in higher education ([link removed]) .

More on our upcoming webinars and additional events:
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Tuesday, July 18, at 2 pm ET for "Confounded Errors."

A little over three years ago, the United States was put into lockdown. The COVID-19 pandemic would upend the lives of all Americans and shine a spotlight on the failures and successes of public health policy.

Many of those failures occurred due to a familiar problem: unsound science and unsafe regulation. The National Association of Scholars (NAS) has published a series of reports titled Shifting Sands ([link removed]) , discussing the effects of such failures of science and policy in PM2.5 regulation and the Food and Drug Administration’s nutritional guidance.

This report dives into the science driving the policy decisions of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This report will feature Warren Kindzierski, Former Professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Alberta-Edmonton; David Randall, NAS Director of Research; Jon Sanders, Director of the Center for Food, Power, and Life at the John Locke Foundation; Scott Turner, NAS Director of the Intrusion of Diversity into the Sciences Project; and Stan Young, NAS Director of the Shifting Sands Project.

To learn more about the event, click here ([link removed]) .
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, July 21, at 3 pm ET for "Restoring the Sciences: Is Science Broken?"

On the surface, modern science glitters like a shining jewel, a rare instance of government spending that works. The MEDLINE database lists more than 1.6 million scientific papers published in 2022 alone. Scratch the surface, though, and the picture looks less rosy. Validation is dicey. Retractions are ramping up. Outright fraud bubbles up more frequently. Politics, not reason, is firmly in the driver’s seat. Breakthroughs are rare, and seemingly independent of spending. More and more, science seems to be something like a very expensive version of Head Start: a money sink that has no aim but self-preservation.

Is science broken? So says the Broken Science Initiative ([link removed]) , founded in 2022.

This event will feature William Briggs, one of the collaborators of the Broken Science Initiative. He is a writer, statistician, scientist and consultant. Previously, he was a professor at the Cornell Medical School, a statistician at DoubleClick in its infancy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, and an electronic cryptologist with the U.S. Air Force. Briggs is a collaborator on The Broken Science Initiative.

To learn more about the event, click here ([link removed]) .
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Join the National Association of Scholars on Thursday, July 27, at 2 pm ET for "36 Years Fighting Racial Preferences: A Retrospective."

Last month, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected ([link removed]) the use of racial preferences in college admissions. The battle to eliminate these unjust, discriminatory admissions practices has long been a goal of the National Association of Scholars (NAS). In the 36 years since its founding, NAS has worked alongside its members and allies to fight racial discrimination in state houses, at the ballot box, and in the courts.

With that in mind, we’d like to invite you to a special discussion on the role that NAS and its allies have played to bring about the end of racial preferences. We will also discuss the future of college admissions, how colleges and universities are likely to evade the ban on racial preferences, and what role NAS can and will play in these important fights.

This event will feature Gail Heriot, a Professor of Law, University of San Diego and member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; Adam Kissel, a Visiting Fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy; and Peter Wood, President of the National Association of Scholars. The discussion will be moderated by Keith Whitaker, Chairman of the NAS Board of Directors.

To learn more about the event, click here ([link removed]) .
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If you can't attend our webinar events live, you can still register to watch the recordings. All registrants will receive a follow-up email with a link to the recording shortly after each event.

If you have missed any of our past events or webinars, you may find all of our recordings here: [link removed].

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars

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