Since fashion itself can seem unscientific, those who would create or reform fashions often deploy science.
In looking at the alternatives to the war on drugs and in setting out radical proposals for a regulated market the Guatemalans have been consulting with the Beckley Foundation, probably the leading global advocate of deploying science and empirical evidence to drive the debate about the war on drugs.
But lately I've noticed a backlash (at least, I read it as a backlash) that deploys "science" as a cudgel to browbeat not just the anti-GMO name-callers but just plain people who express skepticism about conventional agriculture, or confidence in organic — organic farmers, even.
And she has made it clear she believes it was her right to deploy science and a large stash of embryos to pursue that obsession – despite her status as a single mother with no regular source of income, the reported opposition of the sperm donor, and the disapproval of her own parents, who are sharing the burden of bringing up the family.
Despite these factors there are some hopeful signs for deploying science policy more effectively.
Now is the time to think strategically, and across sectors and boundaries, about how we can better deploy science, technology, and innovation in the service of humanity, to advance development in ways that can dramatically and positively change people's lives.
Instead deploy science-backed strategies that make self-control easier.
The good news is that deploying science-backed strategies can go a long way toward bringing out the best in negotiations and in the parties involved.
The reason that some critics have called it a giant psychological experiment is that U.S. military officials have deployed Behavioral Science Consultation Teams, or bscts, to help devise and implement interrogation strategies — a melding of psychology and military intelligence.
But if deployed poorly, science policy can do the opposite: it can stifle the creative pursuit of knowledge, bar access to treatments by inhibiting the approval process for medicines[17] or discourage scientists from pursuing promising avenues of inquiry[18].
