We invite you to join the National Association of Scholars for our upcoming events. Today at 3 pm ET, we'll be revisiting our discussion on "The Case Against Public Science." Tomorrow at 2 pm ET we'll be joined by two experts to learn about the invention of the revolver and its consequences. On Friday, we'll continue our Restoring the Sciences webinar series with "Rethinking Climate Risk."

More on our upcoming webinars and additional events:

Join the National Association of Scholars today at 3 pm ET for the rescheduled event, "The Case Against Public Science."

Has generous public funding been good for science? Or has it been a detriment?

Terence Kealey has argued for the latter, which he outlined in his provocative 2013 essay “The Case against Public Science," part of an essay series on Who Pays for Science? in Cato Unbound. He argues that science does not need public funding to prosper, and that public support of science has largely subsidized institutional rent-seeking by universities and government agencies, and has failed to deliver on the promise of promoting scientific breakthroughs. As such, public science funding has become just another form of corporate institutional welfare.

This event will feature Terence Kealey, professor emeritus of clinical biochemistry at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, where he served as vice chancellor until 2014. The University of Buckingham is the only private university in the United Kingdom. Since then, Terence Kealey has been affiliated with the Cato Institute, where he continues to analyze science policy. Kealey has an extensive background in the economics of science and university administration.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars tomorrow, Tuesday, August 22, at 2 pm ET for "Winning the West—The Revolver."

In 1836, Samuel Colt patented the design for the first revolver, a gun that allowed for multiple shots before needing a reload. The revolver quickly became a popular weapon and has become particularly iconic in depictions of the Old West.

What is the story behind Colt's development of the revolver? How and why did the revolver come to be so associated with the Old West?

This event will feature John Bainbridge, a freelance writer and former report for The Baltimore Sun, and author of Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them and coauthor of American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-out that Stopped It; and Ashley Hlebinsky, curator and historian of historical firearms, and cofounder of the University of Wyoming College of Law's Firearms Research Center.

To learn more about the event, click here.

Join the National Association of Scholars this Friday, August 25, at 3 pm ET to discuss “Restoring the Sciences: Rethinking Climate Risk.”

Why do we have a “climate emergency"? Is it real? Or is it a fantasy?

Judith A. Curry, one of our nation’s most prominent climate scientists, takes a sober look at the risks posed by a changing climate, how we assess the risks, the uncertainties, and the likely damage from the determined push to make “climate” a “climate emergency.”

This event will feature Judith A. Curry, Professor Emerita of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, author of Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking our Response, and President of the Climate Forecast Applications Network. Joining us as co-host for the webinar will be Kathryn Kelly, President of Delta Toxicology, Inc., and co-chair of the National Association of Scholars’ Nevada Chapter. 

To learn more about the event, click here.

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: https://www.youtube.com/@NAScholars/streams.

I look forward to seeing you in the virtual audience!
 

Best,
Chance Layton
Director of Communications
National Association of Scholars