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Science and Politics (George B. Pegram Lecture Series) [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy. Office of Science, 2008.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
"Politics," according to that indispensable source of information, Wikipedia, "is the process by which groups of people make decisions." This differs from science, which is the process by which groups of people improve their understanding by checking their ideas against experience. The two need not have much in common, except that decision-making could sometimes be informed by science, and that scientists engage in politics to influence decisions to support their enterprise. These are the two main dimensions of my topic: one is how government organizes itself to take advantage of science; the other is how scientists organize themselves to take advantage of government.
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E 1.99:bnl-83247-2008-cp
bnl-83247-2008-cp
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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/20/2008.
"bnl-83247-2008-cp"
George B. Pegram Lectures, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York (United States), presented on November 20, 2008.
Marburger, John H, III.
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AC02-98CH10886
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