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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of science drivin... by version_five on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @08:40PM (#34526721)
Technocracy generally doesn't work, nor does science as religion. Science should inform not dictate. And in areas relevant to policy it's never black and white anyway, so just becomes a proxy for some underlying political debate. I don't know that there's such think as a good policy based on "science" saying something.

Maybe some areas of aviation, like definitions of twilight? Surveying laws? It would be banal stuff like that

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of science drivin... by qqqqquinnnnn on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @09:12PM (#34526910)
Folks elsewhere have mentioned things like EPA regulation of chemicals - hard to argue that even though it could be better that there haven't been many great things that have happened directly as a result of that act. See the Cuyahoga river: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught...