The political debate over those questions will be more practical and less ideological, paradoxically enough, if scientific claims about a long-term payoff, or the lack of one, are left out of it.
The political debate doesn't address the payoff.
mnli hypothesis: The political debate doesn't address the payoff. premise: The political debate over those questions will be more practical and less ideological, paradoxically enough, if scientific claims about a long-term payoff, or the lack of one, are left out of it.