Science Progress has just announced their most popular features of 2008:
Some of them dealt with major controversies over political interference with science at the Environmental Protection Agency, the teaching of creationism, and women's access to reproductive health services. Others tackled challenges of a networked world, or considered how policy can better harness the talents of a burgeoning scientific workforce.
It's worth a read so go see what made the list (you might even recognize a couple of the authors). Still, I'm most interested to hear from readers... What would you rank as the biggest science policy stories of last year?
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Easy: John Holdren
Since I am going to begin a postdoc, I will personally go with the postdoc story. Otherwise I would say it is Holdren.
The ethanol-dropping-of-its-piedestal story, more than one decade after scientists began to say that it was not the miracle solution to diminish the CO2.
The realization, in the United States, that China could be ahead of a "space race" by the year 2020, if things continue the way they do.
The "intersection" (sorry...) between economics and science: to resolve the financial crisis, we need huge investments in buildings and stuff; why not wind turbines and green technologies?