South Africa: How Science and Policy Can Embrace Collaboration to Shape SA's Policies for Effective Change

South Africa: How Science and Policy Can Embrace Collaboration to Shape SA's Policies for Effective Change

According to scholars Sven Grimm et al, 'science and policymaking should be an excellent match'. But in real life situations, the relationship is uneasy. Were the relationship between Science and Policy not so important for our nation, we might have been tempted to abandon the search for a more conducive interface and relationship between the two.

Verify the Science - Federal Agencies Often Try to Make Policy Based on Flawed Science—Call Them On It

Remember Ronald Reagan’s “trust, but verify” quote he used to describe the relationship with the former Soviet Union? Unfortunately, today, that same guiding principle is required of our own government. Federal agencies are making policy decisions based on, and consistently using, false, inflated, faulty, manipulated, biased and, in some cases, artificial and manufactured data and science.In an attempt to scale back this prejudiced practice, Con…