Such a very, very naive thing to say. For example, many economists have a liberal agenda. Conversely, many sociologists have a left-wing agenda, or this is at least often the implication of the way they view the world. Who do we listen to? This is not to mention that, even within the same field, there are huge divergences between different researchers and schools of thought. In principle, I agree with the idea that government should listen to academia, simultaneously taking the fundamental principles of biology, psychology, economics and sociology into account and combining them into a comprehensive view of the social world. The problem, as I've already stated, is that these fields often implicitly contradict each other, and that even taken separately none of them offer any unambiguous, clear-cut solutions to social problems. So their interpretation and application necessarily involves explicitly political decisions. Technocracy is nothing more than a myth. ---------- Post added 2012-07-03 at 17:10 ---------- Please, the grown-ups are talking. Don't turn this into a retarded GOVERNMENT IS BAD Libertarianism 101 discussion.