Transparency & Freedom to communicate --- The key issue is to allow the scientific task force to communicate INDEPENDANTLY from the policy makers. The public needs to clearly see what are the scientific evidences (or the lacking evidences) to be able to distinguish what are the reasons for a given political decision, and to understand that the political decision-making is based on a much larger set of considerations than what science can offer.

Source author: Patrick Furrer Patrick.furrer@smartfree.ch