Science is a beautiful, wonderful, fascinating, illuminating process. We at Popular Science wouldn't be in this business if we didn't love science. Which is why it's painful to see Neil deGrasse Tyson, who does a great job at explaining plainly the beauty of science, suggest a science-inspired form of government that would lead to vast human suffering and stifle the progress of knowledge.

Tyson's proposed system of government is called "Rationalia," and it's small enough to fit in a single tweet: Rationally speaking, it would be bad for people and bad for science

"All policy shall be based on the weight of evidence" is a deceptive promise. Certainly, for people worried about global climate change, the lack of weight given to evidence by politicians is maddening. If politicians were obliged to follow the consensus of science, then here, they might have made better choices, choices that would improve the entire world.