Experts in the News

"Trump’s endorsement took a relatively equal playing field ... and tipped it decidedly toward [Susan] Wright," said fellow Mark P. Jones on the Congressional District 6 special election runoff between Wright and Texas state Rep. Jake Ellzey.

BCarbon, a standard created by the Baker Institute, has been rated as one of the best publicly available protocols for soil carbon offsets in the United States. The rating comes from Carbon Plan, a nonprofit that analyzes climate solutions based on the best available science and data. BCarbon is a system to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in the soil as organic carbon. It is designed to work for landowners, businesses and soil carbon storage buyers. "BCarbon is practical, works for landowners and is absolutely needed now in our attempts to address atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide," said Baker Institute Rice Faculty Scholar Jim Blackburn. BCarbon is co-led by Blackburn and Kenneth Medlock, the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics and senior director of the Center for Energy Studies. Robin Rather, CEO of Austin-based Collective Strength, is the group's facilitator.

If President Biden is serious about countering anti-vaccine disinformation, he must consider all of its sources — including conservative news outlets, anti-science organizations and state actors, wrote fellow Peter Hotez. 

How long can consumers expect to deal with higher prices for food, cars and houses? Public finance fellow Jorge Barro discussed the current spike in inflation.

The Corbevax vaccine, developed by fellow Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi, co-directors of the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, could be used to fill the vaccine supply gap in low-income countries. Hotez explained why vaccinating the world is humanitarian and "in our enlightened self-interest."