McNutt Marcia
Marcia McNutt is president of the United States National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC,USA.
Science. 2024 Nov 15;386(6723):707. doi: 10.1126/science.adu4907. Epub 2024 Nov 14.
Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This is a tragedy because science is the best-arguably the only-approach humankind has developed to peer into the future, to project the outcomes of various possible decisions using the known laws of the natural world. Since the founding of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) during the Civil War, the most divisive period in US history, science and the NAS (of which I am the current president) have consistently served the nation, regardless of the political party in power. As the scientific community continues to do so now, it must take a critical look at what responsibility it bears in science becoming politically contentious, and how scientists can rebuild public trust.
早在11月5日美国总统大选之前，我就越来越担心科学已沦为美国社会四分五裂的政治分歧的牺牲品。这是一场悲剧，因为科学是人类发展出的探究未来的最佳——可以说是唯一的——方法，是利用自然界已知规律预测各种可能决策的结果。自美国历史上最分裂的时期——内战期间——美国国家科学院（NAS）成立以来，科学以及NAS（我是现任院长）一直为国家服务，无论执政党是哪个政党。如今，科学界在继续这么做的同时，必须审视自身在科学沦为政治争议焦点一事上应承担何种责任，以及科学家如何重建公众信任。
