And as New Zealand's Chief Science Advisor, Gluckman reminds us, we need to understand that science informed policy-making needs both informal and formal inputs; these operate very differently and for very different reasons and a complete advisory system needs both approaches.
Blood donor suitability criteria are based on science, informed medical opinion, and regulatory rules.
His primary areas of interest are 17th century metaphysics and epistemology, and the ways in which changes in science informed the philosophical views of early modern thinkers.
At the same time the nature of chemistry had begun to change as well, the ad hoc, hands-on laboratory work of the 19th century giving way to a more theoretical brand of science, informed by quantum mechanics.
Some scientists and historians call for an "Islamic science" informed by spiritual values they say Western science ignores, but others argue that a religious conservatism in the East has dampened the skeptical spirit necessary for good science.
The reforms to the undergraduate program are in step with my vision of the Woodrow Wilson School as a place where rigorous social science, informed by scientific and technological knowledge, is applied to policy problems.
