A President's Views, Part 3     
Why Not Science?     
   
  Among his thoughts, college president Dr. Larry Arnn calls the idea that scientific expertise should run our government "dangerous!" 
  
   "Why should we not want to be governed by science?" he asks. 

   "Expertise is necessarily narrow. It is rare for anyone to possess high expertise in more than one field. The problems we face are not in silos. There must be some art of coordinating the knowledge and forming a policy that addresses our problems in their entirety." 

   He continues, "The classical word is prudence. It is the common-sense capacity we have to pursue the proper ends of life amidst constantly shifting circumstances. We must of course listen to experts, but expertise cannot as a simple fact of principle tell us finally what is right to do."  

   "The experts with narrow points of view, backed by the media, urged the President to declare a national economic shutdown," Dr. Arnn notes. As the President "rightly points out, at some point the costs of devastating our economy will become worse than those of the virus." 

 Tomorrow: Priorities of Congress