1. Physicists in Congress Calculate Their Influence

Comment #196993 by Z!ggy on June 20, 2008 at 9:21 pm

I am becoming more and more convinced that the National Academy of Sciences or some similar body should be given official status, and the power to appoint certain positions with no political interfer (or as little as possible if that is impracticable), such as the science adviser to the president, and a science advisory board for each house of Congress. Hell, for governors and state legislatures as well. Maybe we could somehow talk the American people into putting a body composed of 93% atheists in charge of the science curriculum, too. Basically the important thing is to put science back under the control of scientists. I do not see how this could be done democratically, unfortunately, but perhaps a good dose of meritocracy is just what is needed.