It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of … - Rush D. Holt, Jr.

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Rush D. Holt, Jr.

It is true that when people are appointed to positions and talk without any appreciation or understanding of scientists, well, that gets scientists worried. And when public officials talk about alternative facts, people who have devoted their careers to trying to uncover facts are dismayed.

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We know Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin as politicians, but they felt that science was something everyone should have a knowledge of.

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Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

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There needs to be a public dawning - and it is beginning to dawn on some members of the public - that how science is practiced actually makes a difference in their lives. If evidence becomes optional, if ideological assertions or beliefs are just as good as scientifically vetted evidence, then their quality of life suffers. I think that's dawning on people. There's a level of concern unlike anything I've seen.

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The level of concern and anxiety among scientists - and I guess I'd say the science-friendly public - about the place of science in society in government, has gone beyond concern to anxiety.

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The concern now is whether policymakers even understand the meaning of evidence. Whether there is any truth to this descriptor of "fact-free era. " Whether policy is going to be made more and more in the absence of scientific input.

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