Science Cheerleader

Reopen the OTA: “It’s better than nothing.” :)

The founder of Scientific Blogging, Hank Campbell, posted this cheeky endorsement of the Science Cheerleader’s push to reopen the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment with a mechanism for public participation in major science policy discussions.

Hoorah! Support from a science savvy Republican!

Tags: democratizing science, OTA, participatory science, public participation, Science Policy, scientific blogging

This entry was posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 11:28 am in OTA, Science Policy by Darlene. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Reopen the OTA: “It’s better than nothing.” :)”

1. Hank
   April 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm

   I had to choose between the “it’s better than nothing tone” versus “it’s better than giving stimulus money to the NSF so they can watch more porn” tone. I chose (a) because we may want someone from the NSF to write for us some day but these OTA guys will be too busy enjoying unicorn lunches and golfing with lobbyists to write science.

   No, wait, that was the old OTA. The new one will be AWESOME. Provided they let you or someone else with the right mindset run it.

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