“They think they have a good chance of succeeding because the Supreme Court in recent cases has significantly curbed agency authority,” said Sharmila Murthy, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University.

Many people don’t feel directly threatened and are drawn in by the thrill of amateur sleuthing, says James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

“There’s a pretty good likelihood that the decisions coming out of this meeting will further restrict vaccinations or at a minimum, limit or add confusion to the scope of vaccination coverage at a time when we really need to be doing everything possible to make them as widely available as possible,” Neil Maniar, a public […]

Research by Lisa Feldman Barrett of Northeastern University and others shows that the more precise language we have for our feelings, the better we are at understanding and coping with difficult emotions. More vocabulary can lead to more EQ.

“There’s some evidence to certainly suggest that some of the members have based their opinions on questionable scientific information or have misinterpreted the results of scientific studies,” Neil Maniar, a public health professor at Northeastern University, told CNBC.

Costas Panagopoulos, political scientist at Northeastern University, told Newsweek the poll is not particularly surprising.

“I do think we’re in a moment here,” said Laura Edelson, a Northeastern University professor and expert on social media algorithms. “Our country is being digitally mediated. Where we interact with other people, how we interact with broader society, that is more and more happening over feed algorithms. This is the most recent in a […]