A Key Reason Why U.S. Politicians Don't Understand Science
"In 1995, Congressional Republicans shut down the Office of Technology Assessment.…Last week, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) tried to reopen the agency with minimal funding."He failed."
American politics has always been a pretty anti-intellectual exercise (Adlai Stevenson was derided as an egghead, for example) but now, with science and technology playing ever more critical parts in the affairs of government (not to mention thee and me, gentle reader), one might imagine the usefulness of a competent body to advise our legislators on such matters. But I jest. Nope, they don’t want to know no more than they have to there in the Washington, and even that might be too much.
[H/T Miss K via SGIS]
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