bridges vol. 9, April 2006 / Pielke's Perspective
by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.

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In 1963 British philosopher Stephen Toulmin warned that decisions about science would be based on little more than "hunches and prejudices" unless scholars devoted more attention to scholarship on "science policy." More than four decades later, John Marburger, science advisor to President George W. Bush, expressed concern that science policy decisions were largely uninformed by science policy research and requested that "the nascent field of the social science of science policy needs to grow up, and quickly." It is in the interests of both the scientific community and the broader society which it supports to proceed with Toulmin's and Marburger's calls to intellectual arms and expect science policy research to play a greater role in science policy decisions.

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