Linking Lawmakers, Scientific Knowledge (washingtonpost.com)

Linking Lawmakers, Scientific Knowledge (washingtonpost.com)

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is going to step in, with support from the MacArthur Foundation and provide advice to the Congress. The National Academies are a major source of such advice, but their rules are such that the turn around time for responses is long. The Office of Technology Assessment in theory could have provided this service when it was operating, but my experience was that it too took its time. This seems to me a very good thing for the U.S. public.