Thursday, December 30, 2010

Forensic Science Service cuts are criminal - mirror.co.uk

Here's yet another example of a serious lack of respect for science from Government:

Forensic Science Service cuts are criminal - mirror.co.uk

I've posted on this issue before, including saying, 'It strikes me that this Government is doing well in continuing the trend of successive Governments in not following the best available scientific advice and taking action of the type, scale and speed that the evidence suggests. Just off the top of my head in addition to the badger culling issue there is also: drugs and their classification; climate change; over-fishing...The grasp of science, scientific issues and their interrelationship with socio-economic and environmental factors in Parliament, in political circles generally and in the media is, with few exceptions, pretty poor.'

More on this issue:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11989225

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