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Peter A. Ubel, an American physician, is a proponent of scientocracy. In an article titled "Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature", he writes, "When I talk about Scientocracy, then, I'm not talking about a world ruled by behavioral scientists, or any other kind of scientists.
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can lower health care expenditures,... but one instead where science has a chance to show us whether vouchers, gun control laws, and health savings accounts work and, if so, under what conditions."
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Instead, I am imagining a government of the people, but informed by scientists. A world where people don't argue endlessly about whether educational vouchers will improve schools, whether
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must not be arrogant when he enters the society of the scientocracy, and that he must not run himself rashly against vested interests. Yet for all his poverty,
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That book was published in two volumes in 1887. In volume 1 she wrote, "His lesson in Hamburg had taught him that a
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defined scientocracy as "the direction of the country and its resources by Scientists and not by Technicians".
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Kumar, Deepak (2004). "Emergence of 'Scientocracy': Snippets from Colonial India".
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Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens our Future.
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seems to have lived in intimacy with the scientocrats of Leyden—
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Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history.
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Through the fields with Linnaeus: a chapter in Swedish history
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Scientocracy: Policy making that reflects human nature.
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Index

Politics series
government
List of forms of government
List of countries by system of government
Democracy
rule by many
Demarchy
Direct
Economic
Liberal
Representative
Social
Socialist
Others
Oligarchy
Anocracy
Aristocracy
Gerontocracy
Kleptocracy
Kritarchy
Meritocracy
Noocracy
Particracy
Plutocracy
Stratocracy
Technocracy
Theocracy
Autocracy
rule by one
Despotism

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