On Monday, my colleague Caleb Brown will sit down with Trevor Butterworth, Director of Sense About Science USA and editor for STATS​.org, for a live discussion as a part of our Cato Connects series.

Sense About Science’s mission is to advocate for the public interest in sound science and evidence as the basis for informed decisionmaking and political engagement. “The challenge,” Butterworth says, “is that science is not always sound and that evidence is often missing — or misinterpreted or manipulated. The opportunities for making poor policy decisions — or cherrypicking the data to fit a belief or policy objective — are enormous.” As a result, discussions on everything from GMOs to medicines to recreational drugs to the environment, and to nutrition have become more and more politicized and less and less insightful.

Tweet your questions about the relationship between governments and science with the hashtag #CatoConnects and join us at 2:00 p.m. on September 14, when Trevor Butterworth will answer live from the Cato Institute. Be sure to share our event invite on Facebook, and follow @CatoCSS and @CatoEvents on Twitter for news on upcoming events!