"Putting science back in its rightful place"

How can we answer president Obama's call to put science back in its rightful place? Here is a short post by Steve Quake, a professor at Stanford, that landed in the New York Times. A great article about the challenge of academia.

http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/guest-column-letting-scientists-off-the-leash/

The comments are also worth a read.