Posted on 08/20/2017 8:53:57 PM PDT by Innovative
All “science advice” to all sectors of government should always be (a) temporary and meant to be of very limited duration, to (b) achieve an immediate goal of rendering an immediate advice, until (c) then disbanded, and (d) with everyone’s understanding the advice is just advice and not government policy nor a government ruling.
Also, the government officials should ALWAYS get outside second opinions on the advice specific government science panels offer.
Permanent government science bodies tend to (a) ensconce one or more science orthodoxies and (b) stifle and denigrate science research that disagrees with them.
The entire idea of an “official” science position makes the very bad assumption that there is always only one “right” position. But real science requires, demands, that science is not “consensus” and needs the skeptic or it becomes religion, not science.
Now if we could just get the CIA and the military to stop with their similar long range assessments and planning.
True, it is very ecological, but I understand the Navy does have midshipmen train on sailing ships. One develops a much greater respect for the forces of nature by being totally dependent on the behavior of nature and your own understanding of how nature works. My brother helped sail a tall ship from the Caribbean to NY harbor for the Bicentennial celebration. He and a friend also sailed a small craft, I think it was a ketch, from US to Europe the same decade.
I totally respect any seaman that can climb up one of those masts and walk out on the sails.
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