Only someone who works in an ivory tower built with other people's money would say the fact that tax dollars fund science is a "superficial" reason for public oversight. Public servants are public servants, period, no matter how long you've gone to school.
I love that John Donne poem; it's one of my all-time favorites. And yes, no man is an island indeed.
Only someone who works in an ivory tower built with other people's money would say the fact that tax dollars fund science is a "superficial" reason for public oversight. Public servants are public servants, period, no matter how long you've gone to school.