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More science, fewer answers.(Science And Environment)(Book Review)
More Science, Fewer Answers Daniel Sarewitz, "How Science Makes Environmental Controversies Worse," Environmental Science and Policy, October 2004 (elsevier.com/locate/envsci)
The interplay between science and politics in environmental controversies is a longstanding problem. In issues such as global warming, biotechnology, and wildlife conservation, all sides claim to have "sound science" behind them, and their opponents are called purveyors of "junk science." Arizona State University professor Daniel Sarewitz asks, "If everyone politicizes the science, maybe there is something about science that lends itself to being politicized?"
Sarewitz begins with a thought experiment. Suppose the courts had appointed scientists to determine the result of the Florida recount in November 2000. Theoretically, the case seems perfect for a scientific answer, as what was being sought was a simple set of two numbers. However, different disciplines would have gotten involved, from technologists, to neuroscientists (ballot design and perception problems), to psychologists, and each of these could have ...
- Maria Mitchell Association Announces Women in Science Award Winner.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 24, 2001 700+ words
...jurors are Dr. Daniel Sarewitz, managing director...the Center for Science, Policy and...level." -Dr. Daniel Sarewitz, juror, 2001 Women in Science Award Fact Sheet...Mitchell Women in Science Award Daniel Sarewitz, Ph.D. Contact...
- Science policy matters.(FORUM)
- Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology Hutchison, Kay Bailey Chubin, Daryl E. September 22, 2007 700+ words
...starting to shift from hard science to soft science. As government leaders...and in that case, hard sciences (physical science and engineering) must assume...HUTCHISON Republican of Texas Daniel Sarewitz's "Does Science Policy...
- Colorado Univeristy Boulder Science Policy Expert to Lead Group Discussion on...
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service February 17, 2003 700+ words
...the politicization of science," Pielke said. The...the politicization of science across a range of issues...Other speakers included Daniel Sarewitz of Columbia University's Center for Science, Policy and Outcomes...Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, at CU...
- Subcommittees vote 'big science' veto. (U.S. House appropriations subcommittees...
- Magazine article from: Science News Raloff, Janet May 25, 1991 700+ words
...Super Collider (SSC). Many science policy analysts and lawmakers...multibillion-dollar "big science" projects that dominate...major research agencies. Daniel Sarewitz, a staff member of the House science committee, says the first...
- Shaping science and technology policy; the next generation of research.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: SciTech Book News March 1, 2007 700+ words
0299219100 Shaping science and technology policy; the...by David H. Guston and Daniel Sarewitz. U. of Wisconsin Press 2006 370 pages $45.00 Hardcover Science and technology in society...scientists would have any say in US science and technology policy. They...
- Science politicization.(FORUM)(Letter to the editor)
- Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology Miller, Henry I. September 22, 2009 700+ words
Daniel Sarewitz's "The Rightful Place of Science" (Issues, Summer 2009) is naive. Can...actually believe that U.S. presidents rely on science to drive policy, rather than using science to promote political ends? The White House...
- White House spin reaches science research.(USA)
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor March 2, 2006 700+ words
...boundary between the "purity" of science, supposedly free of agendas, and...policy debate by making "factual, science-based arguments," says Daniel Sarewitz, director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona...
- Out of the bottle.(Books)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Issues in Science and Technology Gordon, Daniel B. June 22, 2004 700+ words
...worth asking what science and technology...Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christina...gulf between the sciences and the humanities...of Technology. Daniel Sarewitz is affiliated with the Consortium for Science, Policy, and...