website 'The Conversation' writes about last month's White House OSTP plan for a new Golden Age of Science
Here. Maybe it is just jibber-jabber.
>White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower
Anyone interested could just read it. The plan is from last month. The article gives 2 POVs.
White House
>eight decades of science policy that helped make the United States the world’s scientific leader is too bureaucratic, too focused on institutions rather than individual researchers, and too slow to translate discoveries into economic and technological advantage.
meanwhile the CDC, DOE, EPA, NIST, NOAA, Ag & USGS etc in effect argue that existing scienctific institutions
>conduct and support science that informs decisions affecting public health, environmental protection, energy security, economic development and public safety. Many of these activities generate public benefits that market forces alone are unlikely to adequately provide.
My opinion: both fail to mention the root cause. Which is that while this culture once had 'the habit of truth', it no longer does. Not just with Science but with everything. Too many people do not care if claims are true or false. People fudge mentally. [I would give examples but they might piss people off.]
And why shouldn't people have this attitude? All is post-modern, everyone has an egos and allies with matching vested interests. The winds of misinformation have reached near gale intensity, and sweep over the cultural lanscape. And yet both POVs expressed by The Conversation expect a new 'golden age of science' to be born out of this.