I would add that government bureaucrats and politicians should not dispute scientific findings or promote claims contrary to scientific results. They should expect complete objectivity on the part of government funded science, but they should not raise false objectivity as a reason to consider pseudoscience or false theories to be equal to legitimate results.
David McNeely ---- David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > from: > > Ecological Rants > <https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/ecological_rants/>Ecological > opinions of Charley Krebs and Judy Myers: > > > "Open Letter from a Scientist to a Bureaucrat > Let us assume for the moment that I am a scientist who has worked in a > government research organization for 25 years under a series of > bureaucrats. I have just retired and the object of this letter is to tell a > bureaucrat what is good and what is bad about the bureaucratic government > system. . ." > > continued at > > https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~krebs/ecological_rants/?p=571 > > > Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit > Botany > University of Hawaii > 3190 Maile Way > Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA > 1-808-956-8218 -- David McNeely
