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- Title
Science, politics, and rationality in a partisan era.
- Authors
Kirchner, James W.
- Abstract
Science plays an essential role in public policy by outlining the factual foundations of policy debates. As a result, science often becomes a political football, with partisans dismissing or misrepresenting scientific findings that conflict with their political views. Here I argue that scientists can most effectively speak out, not as activists supporting particular political causes, but instead as advocates for a fundamentally rational public discourse, one that starts from the facts-not from whatever one might choose to believe-and then explores how society should respond to the challenges that they pose.
- Subjects
GOVERNMENT policy; ACTIVISM
- Publication
Water Resources Research, 2017, Vol 53, Issue 5, p3545
- ISSN
0043-1397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/2017WR020882