Today’s thought (with quote I found to help support my assertion (an authority)):
Politics is based upon old science. Ancient Greek science ultimately but codified in English Common Law era science and further in post enlightenment science. (the natural philosophies of the time).
This is fine for it is our tradition. But when politicians make policy that claims to be based upon scientific evidence and they’re not, it really sullies both fields, doesn’t it? When it isn’t even based upon “old science” rules of evidence?
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” Here is what politicians apparently cannot understand: it’s fine to make policy based on ideology, whim, faith, principles, and all the other things we’re used to. It’s also fine for evidence to be mixed. And it’s absolutely fine if your reforms aren’t supported by existing evidence: you just shouldn’t claim that they are. ” – Dr. Ben Goldacre
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