<i>That being said, if you believe that the American academic paradigm is broken, and you have a lot of money, what are you supposed to do?</i><p>Well, we could do actual science.<p>We find a couple cities of at least 100K population, with roughly the same demographics, wealth, etc. and test out different policies.<p>Of course, some of the people involved in the debate are already anti-science, so I don&#x27;t think it will be politically feasible.