So far, crap science has cost this country billions and will cost us billions more. Obviously, there's a place for science, but intertwining science and government isn't that place.
it's almost as if you saying that our faith in science will get us killed. That was the religious mindset for hundreds of years.
Well, you have to distinguish between science and the crap the politicians use to concoct assinine laws.
It wasn't science the engendered Roe vs Wade and the subsequent murders of tens of millions of babies, is was the avoidance of science.
If the law waited for science, as it should have, it would have come to the conclusion that abortion kills humans. The politicians wouldn't have liked that. They've been avoiding that bit of science for decades now, and still haven't legislated a consistent definition of the term "human".
If the law waited for science to come to a conclusion, there wouldn't be a Crap&Trade bill wending through Congress seeking to steal hundreds of billions of dollars and shut down America's coal miners. Too bad they elected their Messiah, huh?
Law rarely waits for science. The people are too stupid to even begin to understand the issues. Instead, the conmen typically concoct some half-assed scientific sounding nonsense that scares enough people to demand support for whatever silly legislation it is the conmen are seeking to line their pockets with.
Remember the air-bag nonsense? The engineering analysis of their effectiveness wasn't fully determined, but Congress was passing legislation forcing them, and their costs, on us anyway.
You'll notice city buses and school buses do no have seat belts, nor do city buses suffer from the same absurd emission requirements the other motor vehicles in California do.
No, politics isn't about science, politicians do not use science, except superficially. Politics is all about emotion and shell games. Hasn't changed in millenia.
The ultimate problem is, naturally, that ignorant and stupid people, who far out number us, are allowed to vote...by the politicians that want as many stupid and ignorant voters as possible.