Great article in the NY Times about an effort to get more geeks in Congress.
Ahem.
In American public life, researchers are largely absent. Trained to stick to the purity of the laboratory, they tend to avoid the sometimes irrational hurly-burly of politics.
For example, according to the Congressional Research Service, the technically trained among the 435 members of the House include one physicist, 22 people with medical training (including 2 psychologists and a veterinarian), a chemist, a microbiologist and 6 engineers.
via Groups Call for Scientists to Engage the Body Politic – NYTimes.com.