By belittling experts we risk building a better, safer country - The Iola Register

By belittling experts we risk building a better, safer country - The Iola Register

When the government abandons support of scientific principles and research … other countries, who continue to revere expertise, will eventually outpace us in science and technology to our disadvantage. For a few years, a major hotel chain ran a series of commercials that I thought were both highly amusing and quite brilliant. A group of tourists were in the control room of a nuclear power plant when suddenly all the warning lights and alarms wen…