Monday, 4 September 2023

"... the danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”


"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.”
~ former US President Dwight Eisenhower, from his Farewell Address, 1961 [hat tip Patrick Moore]

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