YP Letters: A worrying climate of science under attack

From: Dennis Fitzgerald, Landale Street, Box Hill, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Should climate change be taken more seriously?Should climate change be taken more seriously?
Should climate change be taken more seriously?

MICHAEL Rosbash, this year’s Nobel Medicine Prize winner – basically this year’s ‘best’ scientist – is worried that “the current climate in the US is a warning that continued support (for science) cannot be taken for granted”.

When one of the world’s top scientists publicly expresses this level of concern about the direction of science, then perhaps all of us should listen and then also speak up.

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Without science we probably wouldn’t be around without the use of vaccinations – yes they work, a scientific fact – or be as well fed, through improved grain crops or wouldn’t have access to all the world and its resources through the internet, or have TV for relaxation.

Science is often attacked by the misinformed, the climate deniers, the UFO enthusiasts, the astrologers and those who oppose stem cell research on religious grounds.

Some of these people mean well or sound genuine, but we all must support science.

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