National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is an honorific society of distinguished scholars engaged in scientific and engineering research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. The NAS was signed into being by President Abraham Lincoln on March 3, 1863, at the height of the Civil War. As mandated in its Act of Incorporation, the NAS has, since 1863, served to "investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art" whenever called upon to do so by any department of the government. Scientific issues would become even more contentious and complex in the years following the war. To keep pace with the growing roles that science and technology would play in public life, the institution that was founded in 1863 eventually expanded to include the National Research Council in 1916, the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, and the National Academy of Medicine (formerly known as the Institute of Medicine) in 1970. Collectively, the four organizations are known as the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.www.nasonline.org
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Oct 29, 2026
Perry WilsonHOST
And they found this.
Perry WilsonHOST
This is appearing in the Presidium's National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Perry WilsonHOST
I'm sorry, these are four patients, not six.
Perry WilsonHOST
In two out of four of the patients, they saw this high frequency gamma power surge occur across the brain.
Dan BuettnerGUEST
7,000 years old.
Dan BuettnerGUEST
The National Academy of Science will tell you, even though a drink or two a day may raise certain cancer risks— the overall mortality, the overall impact of drinking a little bit of wine actually drops your mortality by 10%.
Dan BuettnerGUEST
In other words, you're more likely to live longer.
Dan BuettnerGUEST
And I can tell you beyond a shadow of doubt, in the Mediterranean blue zones, people are making it to 90 and 100.
Harini BhatGUEST
That audio evidence didn't hold up.
Harini BhatGUEST
A panel of top scientists from the National Academy of Sciences later reviewed the recording and concluded those gunshot sounds were probably just noise and were most likely recorded about a minute after the assassination when the motorcade had already moved on.
Harini BhatGUEST
In 1988, the Justice Department reviewed it all and effectively walked the conspiracy finding back.
Harini BhatGUEST
So that leaves us with an official record that contradicts itself.
Jess LoveHOST
She's the real deal.
Jess LoveHOST
She's been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences and spent a few years as president of the American Mathematical Society.
Jess LoveHOST
And she works on the kinds of math problems that are nothing like what you saw in high school.
Jess LoveHOST
They're weird problems.
Ellen KuwanaGUEST
But then I got into sort of how do you write a sentence better? And I started being interested in that along with science education.
Ellen KuwanaGUEST
And even back in the 1990s, Bruce Alberts, who went on to become from UCSF as a professor, was president of the National Academies of Science, was saying we're training too many PhD scientists.
Ellen KuwanaGUEST
So I got this idea in my head of, oh, you know, you could do science education or science communication, science writing.
Ellen KuwanaGUEST
And that's also, you know, coming from somebody like Bruce Alberts, who wrote the huge book, The Cell, you know, and... was an amazing scientist and really well-respected.
Kurt MineyGUEST
But I went away for a little while.
Kurt MineyGUEST
I went to Washington, D.C. for a couple of years and worked actually at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, which was a whole other conversation, a really fascinating chapter for me.
Kurt MineyGUEST
But then I came back to Wisconsin because I felt it was, when you work in Washington, it's so abstract and distant and you're distracted and you burn out.
Kurt MineyGUEST
So I actually came back to go to work with my friends at the International Crane Foundation outside Baraboo, which is right on the edge.
Thomas GloomHOST
Ivins died by suicide in 2008 and was never charged or tried.
Thomas GloomHOST
In 2011, a National Academy of Sciences review said the science alone was not enough to prove the anthrax came from his lab.
Thomas GloomHOST
Whoever sent the letters, two of the dead were men who were simply doing their jobs.
Thomas GloomHOST
The mail is the closest thing America has to a standing promise.
Pascal LeeGUEST
So that's a huge challenge for probably next century.
Pascal LeeGUEST
And in fact, a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences is recommending we do just that, sort of as a long-term goal on Mars, to drill deep down.
Pascal LeeGUEST
But a better short-term way of going underground is to take advantage of natural caves.
Simon SteelHOST
So... question here from Astro Pudlian.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The
Dana BashSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
National Academy of Sciences, which you just cited, in November said, we support the statement that vaccines do not cause autism.
Dana BashSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is the National Academy of Sciences that you just talked about.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Look at the National Academy of Science most recent report.
Dana BashSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Okay.
Mark HymanHOST
What kind of led you down that path?
Shanna SwanGUEST
Yeah, so I was asked to join a committee of the National Academy of Sciences.
Shanna SwanGUEST
The committee was asked to look at the question, do chemicals in the environment that are hormonally active affect human health? Should we be worried about that? Kind of the same question we're asking today in some ways.
Shanna SwanGUEST
And I joined that committee as, I believe they brought me on as a neutral.
Mark HymanHOST
Also the changing, you know, birth rates between male and female offspring was also really fascinating to me how that number was shifting.
Mark HymanHOST
Uh, and, and so that all kind of got my attention.
Mark HymanHOST
This was, and this was really around 30 years ago when I, And 1995 is when you joined the National Academy of Sciences and Our Stolen Future came out in 96.
Mark HymanHOST
So I was like, oh, wow, this is a thing.
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