These are some of the questions that were tackled on Monday, April 2 at a panel event on Speaking Science to Power: The Importance of Facts in Decision-Making.
Nearly 250 rallies were planned throughout the country and the world to send a message about the importance of facts, science and research in policy decisions, The Post's Marissa J. Lang reports.
Unless and until we as a country reaffirm the importance of facts in our public-policy debates, then we will only continue our political and economic decline.
As the chief representative of more than 2,000 U.S. technology companies, I'm accustomed to working alongside people who believe in the importance of facts: engineers, scientists and other "geeks" who are data driven.
Unless we take seriously the importance of facts and use them as the basis of making informed opinions instead of dealing in "Magical Thinking," our nation will descend into a spiral of self-deception, denial and, scapegoating instead of actually putting our knowledge, skills and ingenuity into solving our problems.
Yet, their understanding is a fundamental prerequisite for novices to appreciate the importance of facts and rules learned in the following sections.
Peter Pitsiokos, the lawyer representing Burman, maintains the supervisor is overstating the importance of the fact that there are six lots.
There is no overstating the importance of the fact that these Arab revolutions are the works of the Arabs themselves.
