Bill Nye and the Risks of Scientific Public Policy

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🗓️ 17 May 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Science-driven public policy has the potential to run roughshod over ethical considerations and important values. Trevor Burrus comments.

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0:00.0	This is the Kader Daily Podcast for Wednesday, May 17th, 2017.
0:06.2	I'm Caleb Brown.
0:07.8	Bill Nye's new Netflix series highlights the high cost of allowing scientific determinations to drive public policy.
0:15.2	Without ethics, economics, and basic recognition of human rights, public policy driven only
0:20.8	by science and go to some pretty dark places.
0:24.4	Cato's Trevor Burris comments.
0:26.0	Science.
0:27.0	Science is our subject today and the idea that science run amok is not good.
0:38.0	Precisely, it's a hot topic.
0:40.5	We had the March for Science with Bill Nye and Neil degrass Tyson and we've recently
0:46.3	had Bill Nye's Bill Nye saves the world his Netflix show.
0:51.3	His humbly titled program.
0:52.6	Exactly.
0:53.6	And we've had for quite a while, we've had a sort of, usually the left is complaining about
0:58.6	how the right hates science in some way and so you see pages like I f-fing love science which is a very
1:04.3	popular Facebook page that they got 25 million likes on it who share things
1:10.6	about vaccinations and all the sort of idea that you just need some science.
1:15.4	You even saw this in movies like The Martian and so there's sort of this cult of science that
1:19.7	has developed and...
1:20.8	Like the viability of a fetus?
1:23.0	Yes, you...
1:24.0	And how early that might be, I'm sure that that's all over that page as well.
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