Beware of Big Government’s Science Experts

14th November 1944: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill smokes a cigar and listens to Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower speak during World War II. Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Commentary

In his famous 1961 farewell address to the nation, then-President Dwight Eisenhower stated that “[while] holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.”