Pielke Jr on the "golden age of scientific authority": It's a "fable that scientists tell themselves to justify their current demand for more authority in politics"

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The Authoritarian Science Myth

First, science and scientists have never been more central to policy making than they are today. Second, the golden age of scientific authority that he invokes is a fable that scientists tell themselves to justify their current demand for more authority in politics.