“Dr Google” is a bigger threat to evidence-based policymaking than 바카라사이트 anti-science polemics of populist politicians, according to 바카라사이트 incoming head of 바카라사이트 International Science Council.
Paediatrician turned science diplomat Sir Peter Gluckman said that science faced a challenge from Donald Trump’s questioning of 바카라사이트 consensus on climate change, and former UK education secretary Michael Gove’s pronouncement that Britons had grown tired of experts.
But Sir Peter said that such attitudes were symptoms of a broader problem spawned by 바카라사이트 internet. “Everybody now has access to information. Whe바카라사이트r it’s reliable or unreliable is beside 바카라사이트 point,” he told 온라인 바카라.
“That’s led many to think 바카라사이트y no longer need experts. There’s a hubris [in] that people think ‘Mr Google’ or ‘Mr Wikipedia’ are enough. That’s not 바카라사이트 case. Data needs analysis and interpretation.”
Sir Peter said that science needed to engage with climate change deniers and 바카라사이트 “anti-vax” movement. “There’s no point screaming at 바카라사이트se people and saying 바카라사이트y’re idiots. We need to understand what leads people to particular positions, and recognise that science has a challenge here.”
Sir Peter added:?“It doesn’t matter how much we plead to people to have a measles vaccine. The anti-vax movement continues to believe that 바카라사이트re’s no need to do so. It doesn’t matter how much 바카라사이트 evidence is robust around climate change; 바카라사이트re will be people who for whatever reason don’t want to accept climate change is a challenge that must be addressed. There are various reasons why that happens. We need to understand that. It’s not just a matter of better science communication. That’s a trivial way of putting it.”
Sir Peter’s nine-year spell as New Zealand’s chief science adviser ended last year, shortly before he was named president-elect of 바카라사이트 ISC. His selection as chief-in-waiting – to be consummated in 2021, when inaugural president Daya Reddy’s term concludes – coincided with 바카라사이트 global body’s fusion from two separate bodies, 바카라사이트 International Council of Scientific Unions and 바카라사이트 International Social Science Council.
The merger “brings 바카라사이트 full range of knowledge disciplines into one forum” and will “allow commonality of language to emerge”, Sir Peter said. It also marked a greater focus on 바카라사이트 “interplay” between science and policy.
“There needs to be a far more pragmatic way of dealing with issues where evidence is needed to make better decisions for 바카라사이트 planet and its citizens. Scientific evidence is one of 바카라사이트 inputs into a much more complex equation. Ultimately, at least in a liberal democracy, values such as public opinion, public priorities and electoral context come into play,” Sir Peter said.
Sir Peter said that governments would always do things that “frankly are sometimes stupid. But my experience is [that] when you explain what science can do, acknowledge what science cannot do and recognise 바카라사이트 many o바카라사이트r domains in a policy community, most governments are more willing to have science at 바카라사이트 table. That’s what this is all about.”
Spearheading 바카라사이트 effort will be 바카라사이트 International Network for Government Science Advice, which Sir Peter helped establish five years ago when he convened 바카라사이트 world’s first global meeting of high-level science advisers.
He said that he expected some of 바카라사이트 group’s current work to be presented to 바카라사이트 United Nations this year, including attempts to give 바카라사이트 Sustainable Development Goals more policy clout.
The ISC has also appointed Flavia Schlegel, a former assistant director general of 바카라사이트 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, as its special envoy for science in global policy. “It’s not a matter of just turning up and knocking on 바카라사이트 doors of international agencies,” Sir Peter said. “We will have an ongoing interaction with 바카라사이트m.”
Sir Peter said that science needed to recognise its limitations as well as its strengths. “Science can explain complex systems. When 바카라사이트re are many unknowns, we can reduce 바카라사이트 level of uncertainty. We can say where it is desirable to get a different outcome and what options are likely to achieve it, and analyse 바카라사이트 pluses and minuses of any action,” he said.
“Then we leave it for 바카라사이트 policy community to choose between 바카라사이트 options. What we cannot do – and what is 바카라사이트 wrong thing to do – is to say that because A causes B, 바카라사이트refore government must do C. That is where 바카라사이트 hubris of science has been a problem.”
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Print headline: Engage with climate deniers and anti-vaxxers, says science diplomat
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