Will Wilkinson:
Increasing prosperity and longevity are mainly driven by scientific advance. Productivity enhancements within science increase the pace of discovery, which increases productivity enhancement generally, which increases the pace of productivity enhancement within science, which increases the pace of discovery, etc. The way scientific discovery, given the right kind of institutional-economic environment, be self-accelerating is, I think, underappreciated. And I suspect losses in prosperity and longevity from over-zealous IP protection may be underestimated.
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Thanks goodness soon we'll have a presidential administration that actually believes in science again.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration has been the most anti-science in recent history, engaging in distortion, suppression, and censorship of scientific data and analysis.
It's little wonder that a huge consensus of scientists, including Nobel Laureates, have spoken out through the last few years.
Time for change, and in this case, this also means back to actually embracing science.
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