Angela Merkel has a Phd in chemistry. But many (most?) European leaders are actually technocrats.

Again a counterexample. The previous Indian Prime Minister was a Ph D in economics (and a very accomplished economist at that) [1]

The current prime minister was the son of a tea-seller, and not very highly educated.[2]

Who do most think is a better prime minister? The second. I believe faith in technocrats is misplaced, and wisdom does not equal technical competence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmohan_Singh

[2] http://time.com/3823155/narendra-modi-2015-time-100/

He was a bit late to the game, and not quite as educated as Singh, but he did eventually end up doing his Masters.

Anyway, you raise a fair point with a solid counterexample.

Margaret Thatcher (somewhat controversial, I know) had a 2nd-class BS Honours in Chemistry from Oxford, and apparently the first UK Prime Minister with a science degree. [source: Wikipedia]

Merkel is the exception to the rule, though. Here is an article on the composition of the German parliament:

http://www.dw.de/few-entrepreneurs-in-new-german-parliament/...

More than half are administrators (probably civil servants i think), teachers, lawyers.

The previous prime minister of Belgium has a chemistry PhD too. He went straight into politics out of university, though.

Lady Thatcher also had a Chemistry degree and worked for a while in Industry.

I have indeed noticed a tendency in the West lawmakers to believe that when human and nature laws collide, human laws should win ...

Politically, humanity's physical environment is considered exterior and stable, but the social environment is almost infinitely plastic and easily influenced by persuasion and rhetoric.

So human politics is far more obviously powerful than science.

It's been a good-enough approximation for most of history, even though in practice it's completely wrong.

Politics is badly in need of a Copernican revolution which puts the physical world at the centre of politics, not the periphery.

I wish we were lucky enough to have a leader with a degree. The current Swedish prime minister worked as a welder and dropped out half way to his degree in social work.

That law is a humanity is an interesting lingual twist.

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