Dr. Gerald Holton
AAAS Board Member 1967-1970
Professor of Physics & Professor of History of Science, Emeritus
Harvard University
I greatly welcome the indication that the AAAS has decided to look seriously into addressing the challenges confronting science and scientists. As a former Board Member during a difficult period, as a believer in the potential of AAAS to be the effective forum and agent for scientists in all fields, and as an admirer of many of the good things done by AAAS over the years, I welcome your plan. Moreover, I infer from the editorial of the President of Sigma Xi in the Nov.-Dec. 1996 issue of American Scientist that other scientific organizations, at the highest level, are beginning to share such concerns.
To add a very brief response, a word about the fourth question you posed, "What should the role of AAAS be?", the short answer is "Much more proactive, and on a larger front of activities" -- from becoming more visible as a National Forum (which I described in an invited talk to the AAAS Fellows a few years ago) to helping more generously with educational tasks, and especially to counter anti-scientific and uninformed charges made in various media and parts of academe.
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