SCIENCE, NOW A POLITICAL FRONTIER AND EXPANDING
By: Jerome Day
Was there any doubt that politics plays a big part in scientific conversation? No, not really, not since the Great Warming Debate. The worry approaches when doubt is cast upon scientific consensus. Science is normally and consistently neutral, for the most part, so the worry arises when science, as evidence-based is the main driver of public policy, and we all know who makes the policy decisions.
Deeper than the policy makers becoming influenced by lobbiests, modern swarm-minded ideas, fakenews, and such is the single thought of the power of one person added to another to another, to form a group with new consensus and a new direction. This is easily achieved. People are easily swayed by misstated facts, inflammatory dialogue and our modern social media fakenews and bully-mentality, thus allowing the present science, now a political frontier and expanding to be well within reach and possibly to sway in an entirely detrimental direction. Continue reading SCIENCE, NOW A POLITICAL FRONTIER AND EXPANDING →