Shut down the debate and these improvements may not take place.
Why on earth should science be a topic of public debate? This is an argument that I just don't get.
You clearly have a political ax to grind here, which is why you keep harping on "debate." But real science isn't subject to debate. The best argument in the world won't change real science one whit. A thing either is, or it ain't.
Seven billion people may hold an opinion, but if it's contrary to fact, the majority opinion is irrelevant.
Real scientists are quietly going about their real work, which is research. And when they've reached a real scientific consensus, they'll pipe up, and all the public "debate" by non-scientists will be nugatory.
In the meantime, you may have noticed (or maybe not, if you're talking instead of reading) real scientists are not coming to Summers' defense. Instead, he's being defended by his fellow economists, conservative "commentators", and other non-scientists who want to squawk about "political correctness" and other shibboleths, and the other usual suspects (Rush, et al.) who want to fight "culture wars" instead of learn science. |
