{"id":239,"date":"2008-05-15T01:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/public-policy-and-scientific-evidence\/"},"modified":"2008-05-15T01:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T07:32:50","slug":"public-policy-and-scientific-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/public-policy-and-scientific-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Policy and Scientific Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any time I am browsing through (main stream media) news articles and find a science related story I feel obligated to stop and read it. The effect of scientific studies on public policy has been an increasing interest of mine since I started graduate school. (Especially with stagnating research funding under the anti-Science Bush administration.) I didn&#8217;t find <a href=\"http:\/\/richarddawkins.net\/article,2571,n,n\" title=\"Secondary Source\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> on a survey indicating 85% of Americans wanted a Presidential debate on science all that interesting until I reached the part on other findings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Only 19% say it is acceptable for elected officials to hold back or alter scientific reports if they conflict with their own views <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What? Only 19%? Only 19!?! I had to look at that sentence for moment just to make sure I was reading it correctly. I don&#8217;t even know what to say about this. The lack of logic hurts my brain.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedebate2008.com\/www\/index.php?id=32\" title=\"Press Release\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedebate2008.com\/www\/index.php?id=32\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/slide8.gif\" alt=\"PolicyScience\" height=\"383\" width=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any time I am browsing through (main stream media) news articles and find a science related story I feel obligated to stop and read it. The effect of scientific studies on public policy has been an increasing interest of mine since I started graduate school. (Especially with stagnating research funding under the anti-Science Bush administration.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmOjo-3R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/codyreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}