Science and politics
Ian Boyd
Bok · Engelsk · 2025
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| Omfang | xviii, 286 sider
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| Opplysninger | Part 1: A Troubled Marriage -- 1. Beyond two cultures -- 2. The anatomy of a troubled marriage -- 3. Inside the politics factory -- 4. Rationalising the politics factory -- 5. Gateways to the politics factory -- 6. Shoring up the marriage -- Part 2: The Corruption of Science -- 7. The subjective by-pass -- 8. Products of the politics factory Evidence: quod erat demonstrandum -- 9. What works in the factory? -- 10. Following the crowd -- 11. Trust in experts -- 12. Redefining quality -- Part 3: Taming the Beast -- 13. Playing the paradigm game -- 14. Taming wickedness -- 15. Adaptive policy testing: Making policy into science -- 16. More than just widgets -- 17. Fixing the marriage. - The recent coronavirus pandemic proved that the time-old notion seems now truer than ever: that science and politics represent a clash of cultures. But why should scientists simply stick to the facts and leave politics to the politicians when the world seems to be falling down around us? --- Drawing on his experience as both a research scientist and an expert advisor at the centre of government, Ian Boyd takes an empirical approach to examining the current state of the relationship between science and politics. He argues that the way politicians and scientists work together today results in a science that is on tap for ideological (mis)use, and governance that fails to serve humanitys most fundamental needs. Justice is unlikelyperhaps impossiblewhile science is not a fully integrated part of the systems for collective decision-making across society. --- In Science in Politics, Boyd presents an impassioned argument for a series of conceptual and structural innovations that could resolve this fundamental tension, revealing how a radical intermingling of these (apparently contradictory) professions might provide the world with better politics and better science.
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| ISBN | 9781509561582
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