The July issue of Ogmius, our Center’s newsletter, is now out and it features an essay by Bob Palmer, recently retired minority staff director of the House Science Committee.

Bob’s essay is titled Science Policy: The Victim of Partisan Politics and he writes in his essay,

“The Federal government is not responding to the many political challenges of the day – energy, environment, health care, global economic competition – whose resolution would greatly benefit from the wise application of S&T. When politics is overly fettered by partisanship, so is science – in the sense that its legitimate role in opening up more room for negotiations and the development of policy options is severely limited. This unfortunately is the niche that science policy occupies today.”

Read the whole thing here. (We’d welcome responses to this essay either here on Prometheus or published as a letter to the editor in the next issue.) In our next newsletter, we expect to have a companion piece by David Goldston, current majority staff director for the House Science Committee. Stay tuned.