The Daily Sceptic | 12 September 2023
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Improving Science Advice to Governments
By
Michael Kelly, Department of Engineering and Trinity Hall, University Cambridge
Clive Hambler, Department of Biology, and Hertford College, University of Oxford
Executive Summary
We present suggestions for improvement of scientific advice to government, aiming to minimize risks of
unintended consequences such as loss of life, cost, and ecological damage. Key improvements would be:
maximizing diversity of advice including crowd-sourcing; rapid challenge to the advice through red teams and
crowd-review; ensuring reasonable accountability of scientists to discourage hype; and protection of scientists
from career damage if they rationally disagree with mainstream views. The precautionary principle needs to be
balanced against the opportunity costs incurred by ‘playing safe’. Institutions such as universities, scientific
academies and journals should not take official positions on scientific issues since this stifles diversity of
thought, freedom of speech and the reliability of advice.
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