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On Science, Society, and Democracy
Posted on | February 4, 2010 | No Comments
Science is best viewed the way we view democracy: Democracy is the best way for societies to organize themselves and make decisions in ways that respect and protect individual rights and freedoms. Science is the best way for society to understand the world around us and ourselves. Science and democracy serve each other and neither can long survive without the other.
If society comes to distrust science—and many do—then where will we turn for answers? What other system does our public discourse have for finding out about the world? Our democratic institutions depend on science being healthy and trusted. Democracy is no substitute. It’s a great system for making decisions, but a rotten system for finding the truth. Science is the best societal tool at our disposal for knowing thing about our world…
…I do think more of us need to speak out in defense of science and what it represents for our society. Unless we do so, we will find our society adrift without any means of getting the good, trustworthy information that democracy needs to make good decisions.
via Phil Windley’s Technometria | On Science, Society, and Democracy.
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