Bush has attended each of the White House panel's meetings, raising hopes that PCAST will have an impact on science policy |
But the 12 members of PCAST say that access is not enough. It's the message that matters, they say. And they add that the jury's still out on whether they will actually make a difference in shaping U.S. science and technology policy in the 1990s.
"I don't think that we'll have any problem being heard," says Harold Shapiro, president of Princeton University. "The challenge is to have ...