Thankyou—this statement of the idea was much, much clearer to me. :)
It seems like the solution—well, a possible part of one possible solution—is to make the social science research institute that everyone listens to have some funding source which is completely independent from the political party in power. That would hopefully make the scientific community more independent. We now need to make it more powerful, which is… more difficult. I think a good starting point would be to try and raise the prestige associated with a social science career (and thus the prestige given to individual social scientists and the amount of social capital they feel they have to spend on being controversial) and possibly give some rhetoric classes to the social science research institute’s spokesperson. Assuming the scientists are rational scientists, this gives them politician-power with which to persuade people of their correct conclusions. (Of course, if they have incorrect conclusions influenced by their ideologies, this is… problematic. How do we fix this? I dunno yet. But this is the very beginning of a solution, but I’ve not been thinking about the problem very long and I am just one kid with a relatively high IQ. If multiple people work together on a solution, I’m sure much more and much better stuff will be come up with.)
Thankyou—this statement of the idea was much, much clearer to me. :)
It seems like the solution—well, a possible part of one possible solution—is to make the social science research institute that everyone listens to have some funding source which is completely independent from the political party in power. That would hopefully make the scientific community more independent. We now need to make it more powerful, which is… more difficult. I think a good starting point would be to try and raise the prestige associated with a social science career (and thus the prestige given to individual social scientists and the amount of social capital they feel they have to spend on being controversial) and possibly give some rhetoric classes to the social science research institute’s spokesperson. Assuming the scientists are rational scientists, this gives them politician-power with which to persuade people of their correct conclusions. (Of course, if they have incorrect conclusions influenced by their ideologies, this is… problematic. How do we fix this? I dunno yet. But this is the very beginning of a solution, but I’ve not been thinking about the problem very long and I am just one kid with a relatively high IQ. If multiple people work together on a solution, I’m sure much more and much better stuff will be come up with.)