Presidential Science Advisors Perspectives and Reflections on Science, Policy and Politics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pielke, Roger (Editor), Klein, Roberta A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: History.; Political science.; Philosophy and science.; Political philosophy.; History of Science.; Political Philosophy.; Philosophy of Science.; History, general.; Political Science.

For the past 50 years a select group of scientists has provided advice to the US President, mostly out of the public eye, on issues ranging from the deployment of weapons to the launching of rockets to the moon to the use of stem cells to cure disease. The role of the presidential science adviser ca...