What is it about?
Nature asked nine leading Europeans to pick their top priority for science at this pivotal point. Love, money, and trust got most votes. Mine was that Europe must tackle the complex crisis affecting the relationship between science, technology and society. Science is under attack but at the same time science bears the responsibility for a long list of dubious practices and unholy alliances.
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Why is it important?
A resistance movement is needed, in which scientists and technologists join citizens, human-rights advocates, humanists and lawyers, to act urgently on the present convulsions, defending science from both the “vote for science” politicians as well as from the depredations of the anti-science movement.
Perspectives
The crisis will become worse before it comes to be better.
Professor Andrea Saltelli
University Pompeo Fabra, Barcelona School of Management
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This page is a summary of: Views from a continent in flux, Nature, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/d41586-019-01569-w.
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Resources
Andrea Saltelli, 2018, Why science’s crisis should not become a political battling ground, FUTURES, vol. 104, p. 85-90.
Related article on FUTURES
Technoscience, policy and the new media. One or many crises? Seminar at the Senter for vitenskapsteori, SVT-UIB, Parkveien 9, Bergen, Monday the 18th of March 2019.
A presentation related to the theme of the multiple crises.
Andrea Saltelli, Silvio Funtowicz, 2017, What is science’s crisis really about?
Paper in the journal Futures Andrea Saltelli, Silvio Funtowicz, 2017, What is science’s crisis really about? FUTURES, Volume 91, Pages 5-11, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2017.05.010
Web page for the event "SCIENCE - POST NORMAL PERSPECTIVES" in Oxford (#Jerry@90), to honour the 90th birthday of philosopher Jerome R. Ravetz
A Workshop, 31 May 2019, 09.30 – 18.00 Oxford Martin School, 34 Broad Street, Oxford OX2 3BD The workshop explores several themes that have long concerned Jerry Ravetz: the future of science, of post-normal science, and of policy-related mathematics.
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