Debate: A Century of Public Policy Research Belies 'My Discipline's Rigor Builds Governance' Claims
davidmanheim · x · 2026-08-28
Risk researcher David Manheim, in a spat with @DrAtoosa, pushes back on the claim that discipline-style rigor is what builds governance that serves—calling it untethered from a century of public policy research and experience. He notes two of his three examples, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Asilomar conference, were governance responses to purely speculative risks that hadn't happened yet. Ethics and CS expertise is critical, he says, but dismissing other fields' expertise is frustrating.
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