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Originally Posted by lawcat
Scientists should be locked up in labs and universities, but not in policymaking chambers.
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To whom would we give the key?
There is no particular qualification to be a policymaker. Many are lawyers, but the founders were mostly farmers. Jefferson and Franklin were part-time (gasp!) scientists. They came from an age that believed in studying all sides of a question before positing an answer to it--The Age of Reason. They applied social and political science to the prevailing humanist philosophy and came up with a pretty good model for a country. Actually, IMHO, they came up with a pretty good country.
I think I'd rather have scientific study informing decisions than, say, prayer and fasting. So if those scientists ever escape, I hope they will run for public office.
--lemit
