The good news is that social scientists are making progress in understanding why people ignore solid scientific evidence in deciding what they think about all manner of science-based issues including how those topics should be taught in schools and addressed by policymakers.
During my visit here in Pakistan, soon to end, I've been shown profound respect and hospitality, although I've come here from the land of an enemy, from a country that brings terrifying robotic planes here, constantly surveilling and routinely killing from the skies in a manner reminiscent of science fiction.
Trudeau's Liberals have already vowed to recreate some manner of national science advisor, and lifted a much-protested prohibition against scientists talking to the media.
Fascinating as these questions are in their own right, Epicurus himself does not proceed by creating an abstract model, exploring its internal coherence, and determining its applicability to phenomena, in the ideal manner of modern science.
They encourage the idea that the typical manner of progress in science is the breakthrough of a lone genius.
But Machiavelli also advises the use of prudence in particular circumstances, and, though he sometimes offers rules or remedies for princes to adopt, he does not seek to establish exact or universal laws of politics in the manner of modern political science.
If you were a school child in Britain in the 1980s or 1990s, you'll have memories of hours spent watching educational films about all manner of subjects from science to sex that all looked like they were made by the same company, probably in the same afternoon, in the 1970s.
Many of these were middleware products but OSCAR was seen by the UK eScience community as an example of a widely-deployable component that could be used in a modern manner in many branches of science.
