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<p>This is certainly a valid criticism. My preferred outcome would be a vote of the national academies every 5 or 10 years, preceded by expert testimony and debate, with representatives of other intellectual disciplines having a role too. But, of course, it is easy for the broad public to feel excluded from such a process… How to allow qualified people to decide these issues without seeming elitist is, as I said above, the big political challenge. I have no particularly good ideas on this point.</p>