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No doubt we need to get rid of the climate change/global warming/call-it-what-u-want deniers, and the outright false information being disseminated without batt
by stryk 9y ago
No doubt we need to get rid of the climate change/global warming/call-it-what-u-want deniers, and the outright false information being disseminated without batting an eyelash is pure insanity, but I still have to wonder if folks who have spent their lives in academia are compatible with government?
It is possible to swing the needle too far in the opposite direction and end up with just as many problems.
- jessriedel 9y agoHa! The overwhelming majority of congressmen and senators are lawyers or businessmen. The number of scientists, between both chambers, is in the low single digits. https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44762.html#_Toc498356618 https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/R44762.html#_Toc49835... https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/01/17/an-awesome-diagram-of-the-113th-congress/?utm_term=.9328c871a4d8 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2013/01/17/an... I don't think we're remotely close to "swinging the needle too far in the opposite direction"...
- stryk 9y agoAll I'm saying is, academia and government are 2 different ballgames -- I'm sure there are lots of similarities, but the stakes are on 2 vastly different levels. I'm not saying having scientists in the government would be bad, to the contrary -- right now that's what we need. But replace all the lawyers and businessmen in government right now with professors and administrators from academia and we would still have lots of issues.
- heurist 9y agoI doubt the bureaucracies of academia and government are all that different at their cores.