Word: branscomb
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Although the validity of scientific researchmay not be a question, politics and science canstill become intimately embroiled with each other,according to Pratt Public Service Professor LewisM. Branscomb, director of the science, technologyand public policy program at the Kennedy School...
Commenting on the support by Texasrepresentatives to fund the supercollider,Branscomb says, "The political approach didn'thave to do with finding top quarks, but had to dowith prestige and the value of high tech commerceto the local communities...
...Branscomb says there is an economic need forgovernment involvement in science. "Theutilitarian value of science is so important to ahigh wage society that you need a huge publicinvestment," he says...
...according to Branscomb, the governmentshould have no problem obtaining a fullunderstanding of the biases of science...
...doesn't leave issues open and stirring tension," Pratt Public Service Professor Lewis M. Branscomb said last spring. "He's just awfully good at providing a steady leadership...