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The US Scientific Expedition to Explore the Pacific Basin, 1838

The US Scientific Expedition to Explore the Pacific Basin, 1838

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Brenda Elthon
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USS Vincennes, from the Ex. Ex. mission, in Disappointment Bay, Antarctica. Attributed to Capt. Charles Wilkes, 1846.

We live in a time when there are few public advocates for a national investment in science. It is a time for “common sense” solutions to problems. Evidence-based scientific inquiry is denigrated as the province of the “elites,” and is …

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