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What if the government was run by scientists?
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What if the government was run by scientists?
Just imagine if the government was run by scientists, with the same accuracy that could eventually put a man on the mars. From what I understand, the scientific method has principles which are ethical principles, which have lead to results that push the boundaries of mankind. It's not that we just don't have that capability. Just imagine what precision and how far we could push the progress of humanity, if we had people who used the scientific method to run the government.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
We do have a peer review process for government. What we were told to assume to be our peers gave us trump.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
Manhattan Project
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
(February 19, 2017 at 9:40 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: We do have a peer review process for government.  What we were told to assume to be our peers gave us trump.
It's not run by scientists.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
(February 19, 2017 at 9:50 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Manhattan Project

Lazy cheap shot, Chad.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
(February 19, 2017 at 9:59 am)Alex K Wrote:
(February 19, 2017 at 9:50 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Manhattan Project

Lazy cheap shot, Chad.

Only meant to show that science is morally neutral. The same technology that could light cities can level them too.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
Bad idea. Scientists, with very few exceptions, make lousy politicos.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
(February 19, 2017 at 10:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Bad idea.  Scientists, with very few exceptions, make lousy politicos.

Boru
I can see why I blocked you. You say things like this with nothing to convince me of this. You expect me to just take "scientists make bad politicians" without any reason. You're a pseud.

(February 19, 2017 at 9:50 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Manhattan Project
I'm so sure the people who built the bomb weren't working for the government. This statement is retarded.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
Ethics are in the scientists, not the method.
I don't have an anger problem, I have an idiot problem.
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RE: What if the government was run by scientists?
(February 19, 2017 at 10:23 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Ethics are in the scientists, not the method.
Self scrutiny, peer review, clarity of language, accuracy. These are ethical principles.
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