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SCIENCE AND POLITICS:
THE AUTHORITY OF SCIENCE IN PUBLIC
DECISION-MAKING PROCESS
Despite the strong scientific progress that characterizes our history of
the last few centuries, erosion of scientific authority in the process of public
decision-making is now present even more than before; many cultural and
philosophical worldviews that consider science as just one of many worldviews
undermine its influence and authority in the policy-making process.
Strong anti-Darwinist movement in the United States, popular opposition
to GMO cultures in the European Union, as well as ignoring scientific facts
about climate change when creating industrial policies, are examples of
erosion of the authority of science. Our goal is, following in part the work
of Philip Kitcher, to indicate the proper role of science in the deliberative
democratic society, and to draw attention to the existence of chimeric epistemology
that causes erosion of scientific authority. Finally, we provide
a brief overview of the issues that a well-ordered science should address,
especially in the medical field, and draw attention to the implications that
follow from this approach. We will also briefly outline some of the political
issues in respect to which the erosion of the authority of science becomes
quite clear, as well as demonstrate how a society that endorses the idea of ​
a well-ordered science should respond to these problems.
JURAJ GAJSKI
Fakultet političkih znanosti, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Hrvatska /
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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