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Re:Beware the Man of Many Studies by DontchaKnowit on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:10PM (#36229801)
yes certainly science can inform policy decisions. How do I put this...

Science has nothing to say about what we should set as the objectives of our policy. Science can, however, inform our approach to attaining that objective.

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Re:Beware the Man of Many Studies by brutusborn on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @11:35PM (#36236857)
To oversimplify my view:

Politics = applied philosophy Science = applied epistemology

Pretending that science can create policy leads to things like eugenics (but Darwin said it would make us fitter so it must be ‘good’!)

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