Science Illiberal science By Grant Addison, Deputy Editor - Magazine October 28, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print Science Illiberal science By Grant Addison, Deputy Editor - Magazine October 28, 2021 11:00 PM Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Email Print In July of 1945, Vannevar Bush, the head of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development, submitted a report to President Harry Truman outlining what he believed should constitute the basic principles for the government’s postwar scientific research apparatus. The report , which was prepared at the behest of the late Franklin Delano Roosevelt and given the sapid, FDR-inspired title “Science, the Endless Frontier,” would become a landmark for modern federal science policy and, in the words of Roger Pielke, “entrenched the concept of government patronage of scientific research in policy discourse.” In the...