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Our scientific ecosystem’s goods are the independent, distilled, peer-reviewed knowledge that drives our societies and economies forward.
The scientific ecosystem also serves us in ways that are harder to articulate.
With all scientific publications recorded digitally, citations can be counted instantly, allowing scientists to be ranked accordingly.
And in the complex and interconnected scientific ecosystem, a solution is not easy to find.
To support this effort, we could encourage a new breed of science curators to explore the terrain of scientific knowledge more systematically, looking beyond trending topics to identify surprising but promising linkages between research, as well as conflicting results that merit further inquiry.
Finally, the one-dimensional citation metric should be complemented by additional indices that provide a more comprehensive, multifaceted assessment of scientific work.
Only then can the huge number of new minds that join the ranks of the world’s scientific researchers each year actually contribute meaningfully to the advancement of science and, in turn, the progress of humankind.
The gap between the respective qualities of China’s economic and scientific elites, on the one hand, and its ruling political elites, on the other, is simply too monumental – and still growing – for stability to be taken for granted.
Impoverished communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia are ripe for a “green revolution,” based on modern scientific techniques for managing soils, water, and seed varieties.
Recent scientific insights have made us better equipped than ever to strike that balance.
And, though the costs of climate damage are staggering, scientific research indicates that mitigation costs are manageable.
In 2010, the European Commission, after considering 25 years of GM-organisms (GMOs) research, concluded that “there is, as of today, no scientific evidence associating GMOs with higher risks for the environment or for food and feed safety than conventional plants and organisms.”
Tax revenues transferred to pensioners could have been invested in infrastructure, education, scientific research, defense, and all the other urgent causes that politicians claim to support.
The sad irony is that recent scientific advances in biology and information technology actually make possible the development and use of innovative tools to face these killer diseases.
Vaccines for all three of these dread diseases are within scientific reach, but will requires some billions of dollars to bring through the research and development stages to actual use.
After all, the $10 billion or so in costs of bombing Kosovo this spring could probably have paid for the needed scientific work over the next few years on all three vaccines!
When I served in 1995 on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the scientific group that periodically assesses the science of global warming, there was overwhelming evidence that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had increased markedly since the beginning of the industrial revolution, that human activity had contributed significantly to those increases, and that they would have profound effects on climate and sea levels.
Global warming is one of those rare instances where the scientific community is more fearful of what may be happening than the population at large.
Though mean reversion is not a scientific law, there has never been an occasion when rising asset prices did not eventually return to their long-run average.
There are simply too many things – from the “prospect of a European war” to the “price of copper and the interest rate 20 years hence” – about which “there is no scientific basis on which to form any calculable probability whatever.”
Of course, a degree of scientific uncertainty about some of these pollutants’ precise contribution to warming remains.
Unfortunately, political leaders know little about the scientific issues involved.
In fact, ITER is a big instrument for fundamental research, so its €500 million Euros annual cost needs to be compared with similar scientific initiatives, such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which costs one billion Swiss francs per year.
We already have the bad example of the International Space Station, a waste of $100 billion that has produced no scientific results.
Although it has some scientific interest in plasma physics, the participating countries should clearly state that funding it won’t affect the rest of their research efforts.
At the time, many denounced Copernicus’s insight as heresy against established Christian doctrine; eventually, of course, the Copernican Revolution paved the way toward a new, scientific worldview and enhanced human prosperity.
For when we touch the heart of matter, we also touch the hidden order of Being beyond scientific understanding.
A warning against the arrogance of rationality is at the same time a warning against the arrogance of social engineers -- those who believe that a freer and happier life for mankind can be secured solely by devising scientific plans for it from above.
As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the horizon of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists.
In fact, the US government remains a critical supporter of scientific and engineering research to this day.
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