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The struggle over science
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 23, 2005 05:36pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Aug 23, 2005 02:50am |
| Description | In his weekly opinion column, Harold Evans considers rising concern in the US over the Bush administration's hostility to science.
All these breakthroughs found their fullest exploitation in the United States. Indeed, they all contributed to America's pre-eminence in science-based manufacturing and services.
That is why there is furious bewilderment here in the universities and the higher levels of business at the chilly indifference - not to say hostility - of the Bush White House to science. Actually, I've seen a movie like this once before and I know how it ends.
That's a recipe, says Cerf, for "irrelevance and decline."
Fewer of the Nobel prizes go to American scientists, down to about half from a peak in the 90s. Papers from Americans occupied 61% of published research in 1983, now the total is just under 29%. |
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