December 14, 2009
When it comes to science and public policy,
writes Cathy Young, the average citizen usually has to trust
scientists—whose word he or she has to take on faith almost as much
as a religious believer takes the word of a priest. And as Young
notes, once that trust is undermined, science becomes a casualty of
politics.
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