Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The appliance of science

This is an excellent article by an environmental scientists on climate change in the Guardian.
"Politicians and the public look to scientists to explain the causes of climate change and whether it can be tackled - and they are queuing up to deliver. But, asks Mike Hulme, are we being given the whole picture? Wednesday March 14, 2007


"But there are two other characteristics of science that are also important when it comes to deploying its knowledge for the benefit of public policy and society: that scientific knowledge is always provisional knowledge, and that it can be modified through its interaction with society."

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