http://www.alternet.org/belief/neil-degrasse-tyson-lets-science-deniers-have-it-beginning-end-informed-democracy
Yes, but it requires enlightened governance for that opportunity to arise. Science doesn't happen in the abstract. It pays to have science done. Frontier science, historically and in modern times, is generally paid by government-based sources – the NIH, the National Science Foundation, the research arms of the Department of Energy, even the science arms of the Department of Defense. Someone is paying for research. You can't just say, "Well, the science will save us." No, enlightened governance enabling the science will save us. Scientific solutions to society's challenges, historically, have been the most potent ways to solve problems.
---Steve
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