In his post-inauguration speech, President Obama spoke of restoring science to it’s “rightful place”. Seed’s new ‘Rightful Place’ project asks the obvious follow-up: what is the rightful place of science? The fact that Seed’s initiative talks of ‘reviving science in America’ almost takes as a given that scientific thinking, and a respect for scientific results, should be a central plank of enlightened government. To the extent that Obama seems to be a fully paid-up member of what one of his predecessor’s minions once contemptuously referred to as the “reality-based community”, the new President seems to agree, and I can’t deny that I find this encouraging. But in some ways, I’m not convinced that we’re actually asking the right question here. I feel that it’s not so much a matter of us putting science in its rightful place, but letting science put us in ours, by forcing us to acknowledge some unpalatable truths about our world – and ourselves.
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