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Originally Posted by 01101001
Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a coming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task -- getting elected to public office.
He is among a growing number of scientists who feel slighted and abused in the public debate in recent years and are mobilizing to inject "evidence-based decision making" into public policy.
Today, Suson, dean of engineering, mathematics and science at Purdue University Calumet, will join more than 70 other scientists, engineers and students at a hotel at Georgetown University for a crash course on elective politics
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Sorry, but I've read way too many great big steaming bowls of economic woo theory served up in OTB by people calling themselves scientists to think that scientists will 'inject "evidence-based decision making" into public policy' any more than anyone else.