Matthew's Journal

Yup. I've long wished that there was a rather larger intersection between what the best available evidence suggests we should do and what politicians think is "good policy". I periodically wonder about starting a party with the soleprimary* policy guidelines "follow best scientific advice" and "increase social justice", but suspect that it would be unelectable because it's so obviously opposed to the interests of the big media (and other special interest) groups....

*there are some circumstances where best scientific advice isn't available and you therefore have to choose some other means :)