Its absolutely a cry for rationalism . But most Australians , while they will pay credence to the need for scientific insight , won ' t elect a party whose sole platform is on ' science '. This is because our society is comprised of various other things , including welfare , housing affordability , international affairs etc which don ' t have groundings in science . I feel like a better approach might be to delegate certain responsibility to the CSIRO , give them more funding , greater independence and some binding authority on things like climate , energy , technology , infrastructure and medicine and leave the rest to whichever party is in power . <| sep |> In what universe does that make sense ? The replacement good for cars suddenly becomes even cheaper relatively and this makes it less attractive ? Right .