Not such a laudable goal indeed --- I really doubt this is laudable. Policy-making should be understood and explained rather than being occulted, the science component of all decision-making processes should be explicited, as well as all other considerations that pertain to policy-making. This is essential for democracy. The difference between science-based or evidence-based policy-making is a subtlety, decision-makers have to admit in transparency the reasons of their decisions, and clearly differentiate the ones that are scientifically based (or evidence-based) and the ones that are not.

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