The simplest and cheapest of all reforms within institutional science is to switch from the passive to the active voice in writing about science.
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It is what makes the reform process an art, not just a science. You have to develop a strategy that tells you what reform measures you should follow and in what sequence.
All policies should be guided by science, not just whose voice is the loudest.
As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in science in this century alone.
All research scientists know that writing in the passive voice is artificial; they are not disembodied observers, but people doing research.
There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.
The tension between public and private science is powerful.
The historian of science may be tempted to exclaim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.
While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it.
Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.