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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a group of DC parents lobbying for a decrease of 3ft. I guess they are smarter than the scientists![/quote] Figuring out whether kids should be in school full time is a question that certainly has a scientific component, but it's a policy question about weighing different values and priorities. Whether I'm "smarter" than "the scientists" isn't really relevant to whether I get to have a perspective on this. And people who are familiar with the messiness of research and the extreme messiness of how research gets translated into policy don't talk this way. [/quote] Ugh. First it was ignoring science altogether because 2020, then it was 'But the science!' and now it's "yeah, ok, there's science, but if I'm shrill enough and shrewd enough, my arguments and needs could very well prevail over science, because the relationship between science and policy is so complicated and messy."[/quote]
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