View Single Post
  #13 (permalink)  
Old 28-June-2008, 07:05 AM
montebianco's Avatar
montebianco montebianco is offline
Established Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,007
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by 01101001 View Post
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
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.
__________________
Don't like what you see here? Click the link.

This account has been placed beyond use. Montebianco no longer exists.
Reply With Quote