I thought I might start regular posting with a brief and obvious reaction to this tweet of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s which has received a bit of pushback:
The principle that policy should be informed by evidence is, I would venture, near universally agreed upon. The crucial problem, visible to so many, but apparently not to Tyson, is that we need to know what we want policy to do. This is the basic work of politics and it is always messy. Read More...
