Friday, April 27, 2007

Scientific Govermental Method

I wonder how government would change if it were forced to apply the principles of Scientific Method to legislation.

What if laws were subjected to peer review for possible mistakes before being accepted?

What if each law had to adhere to the falsifiability principle by including a series of objective benchmarks that would invalidate the law? That is, what if a law were invalidated if it's predictions were contradicted by reality?

What if important positions in government could not be obtained without satisfying certain merit requirements?

What if results had to be reproducible by others within the governmental community?

What if government workers were expected to maintain detailed records of their experimental procedures in order to provide evidence of the effectiveness of the tactic?

The Achilles Heel of this concept is that it demands the intellectual honesty of the participants.

But I can dream, can't I?

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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"

Charles Darwin