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It’s easier to set up a system to provide nonpartisan funding and review of scientific work than it is to have everyone read and source all of the research. It
by pbourke 6y ago
It’s easier to set up a system to provide nonpartisan funding and review of scientific work than it is to have everyone read and source all of the research.
It’s also easier to set up an apolitical body that makes recommendations based on research than it is to have everyone draw their own conclusions or devolve into “blue science” vs “red science”
These are mechanisms that cultivate public trust, and there are countries that do a pretty good job at it.
- ithkuil 6y agoUntil those apolitical bodies become institutionalized and perceived by some people as being an expression of an elite caste and then a new political current arises to galvanize people against "elites" and poasibly takes over one of the existing parties (or creates a new one, depending on the country specific political and election rules)