> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments e

> Across the board budget cuts say nothing about supporting the scientific method. Semantic nihilism. It’s a basic fact of political science that governments enact policies in order to achieve outcomes. Or if you prefer cybernetics, there’s always Stafford Beer: “The purpose of a system is what is does.”