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IF IT wasn’t already clear that the Obama administration intends to seek policy advice from scientists, his address to the US National Academy of Sciences last month settled any doubts. “I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions – and not the other way around,” the president told some of the country’s most accomplished researchers.
This is a vast improvement over his predecessor, who contorted and ignored scientific consensus on too many occasions to list. But advocacy-minded scientists may want to study David Prindle’s new book on the politics of the late Stephen Jay Gould…
