All Ye Need to Know
Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience.
Daniel Sarewitz is a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, where he co-directs the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes. A prominent voice on science policy and the relationship between science and democratic governance, he contributed essays to The Weekly Standard exploring themes of knowledge, trust, and public understanding.
Daniel Sarewitz on the impossibility—and the necessity—of distinguishing science from nonscience.
Pollsters, pundits, and public intellectuals identify declining levels of trust in America’s civic institutions as a threat to social and political order. Public opinion data bear out that trust has indeed waned in recent decades. The great majority of citizens in the early 1960s broadly viewed the…