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<jats:title>Setting policy, knowing risks</jats:title> <jats:p>Policy-makers often commission formal analyses to estimate the costs, risks, and benefits of proposed projects or policies. Applications range from estimating the risks of commercial nuclear power, to setting priorities among environmental risks, to comparing technologies for generating electricity, to weighing the benefits and risks of prescription drugs. In the United States, analyses are required for all major federal regulations. Fischhoff reviews how such analyses are limited by the scientific and ethical judgments inherent in the process and require collaboration between those who generate the analyses and those who want to use them.</jats:p> <jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> , this issue p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" related-article-type="in-this-issue" xlink:href="10.1126/science.aaa6516">10.1126/science.aaa6516</jats:related-article> </jats:p>

<jats:p>Earlier this month, famed astronomer Geoff Marcy's sexual harassment of female students was exposed. He has since resigned from the University of California, Berkeley, in the face of concerted pressure from peers and students. It is unconscionable for someone to use academic power to be a sexual predator, but the reality is that Marcy operated in an academic culture that turned a blind eye to such behavior.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A roundup of weekly science policy and related news.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Deep-drilling ExoMars mission will probe long-buried clay formation for signs of life.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Studies suggest key role for perineuronal networks of proteins and sugars in long-term memory.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Fresh data reveal titanosaur growth stages, from egg to adult.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Twenty-year household surveillance project aims to gather data first, produce hypotheses later.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Cash-strapped Russian expedition curtails drilling plans as it sets out for the southern continent.</jats:p>

<jats:p>WHO Director-General Margaret Chan wants member countries to put their money where their mouths are.</jats:p>