Science is political: EPA cuts greatest impact on "communities of colour, poor & Indigenous populations" https://newrepublic.com/article/141383/trumps-epa-cuts-literally-will-make-people-sick … #marginscipic.twitter.com/wQzoBQeHnz
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Yes, been reading on that. The criticisms obv raise a critical point, but also miss the point, to a degree.
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(Twitter prolly bad venue, but here I go anyway) From my read, at least,
@ScienceMarchDC's 'science not political' stance + -
Not true. Read all the materials I've linked to in my article including various Storify.
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Thanks, trying to go back & find those. But most 'science is political' articles/tweets/etc (incl. your OP)+
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I've read (so far) seem to disagree on rhetoric basis, but then make the same point (*ignoring* science is a political act).
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such as https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywillingham/2017/02/05/the-march-for-science-in-washington-is-political-whether-you-like-it-or-not/#277ebc7b5b7f … disagrees, but then restates *exactly* the orig. point of
@ScienceMarchDC (by my read).
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in that regard, if you define "science" as "body of evidence and attendant conclusions," then role in +
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public policy should be apolitical (free of political filter). Policy makers should set goals, then use sci+
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to design policies to achieve those goals. The goal-setting is political, role of science is not, ideally.+
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Increasingly, politicians distort, obfuscate, ignore, and outright lie about science in order to mask +
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their political priorities. To me, this is one original intent of
@ScienceMarchDC & the comment in question, and is + -
an idea not sufficiently considered/resolved in the ensuing discussion (in great part due to subsequent +
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@OtherSociology ... other missteps by@ScienceMarchDC). Blah, that took too many tweets, and I'm *still* not sure I'm being 100% clear.
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