The public pay, so give them their say
Article Abstract:
Lord Winston, professor of fertility studies at Imperial College London and director of NHS research and development at Hammersmith Hospitals Trust, responds to criticism that he has received for suggesting ways in which the growing level of public mistrust of science could be tackled. He argues that the future of science in the UK may rest on the ability of the scientific community to engage the populous in an informed discussion about what research is conducted and how that research is used and, therefore, it is vital that scientists come to terms with the fact that the public have a say in their work, if for no other reason than they are paying for much of it.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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Article Abstract:
Issues relating to the contention that the poor are being robbed as a result of research data into poverty being kept out of the public domain by researchers are examined. The Chronic Poverty Research Centre, a partnership of research institutes, universities and advocacy non-governmental organisations from South Asia, Africa and the UK, has uncovered evidence that datasets about wellbeing and poverty are being captured by researchers and their agencies, who hang on to them for years on end, thereby slowing the understanding of poverty and hampering efforts to reduce poverty.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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'Chemists should remove scientific inventions from the lives of those such as Billy Connolly and Jeremy Clarkson who rubbish science education'
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Issues relating to the impact that chemists and scientific research in general have had on the way in which we live our lives are examined. It is argued that those who rubbish science education and mock those children who love science and on whom our future depends should be forced to live without the innovations that research has brought us, so they should be forced to exist without items such as shampoo, food grown with inorganic fertilisers, contraceptives, adhesives or modern sporting equipment.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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