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More bureaucrats needed?(SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT)(Book Review)
Adam Keiper, "Science and Congress," The New Atlantis, Winter 2005 (thenewatlantis.com)
Adam Keiper, managing editor of the new conservative magazine of science and culture, The New Atlantis, looks at the history of the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from its creation in 1972 to its abolition in 1995 and asks whether a similar institute needs to be re-established. The office existed to "provide the legislative branch with adequate and timely information, independently developed, relating to the potential impact of technological applications."
The Office of Technology Assessment had a difficult existence, primarily because it was dominated by Congressional liberals. In the end, despite a period in which the Office produced many useful and in-depth studies, the widespread perception of liberal bias caused its demise. Keiper traces the beginning of demands for its abolition to the highly critical 1984 report on the Reagan administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. In 1995, Congress cut funding for the ...
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- Brett Ratner Brands to Anchor New Atlantis Multiplatform Advertising and...
- Newspaper article from: Manufacturing Close-Up October 3, 2009 700+ words
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Source: HighBeam Research, More bureaucrats needed?(SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT)(Book Review)