The Reef is fine, the Forests are overgrown, and the River will keep flowing. Science, though is a disaster. What can we do?
Help figure out how to get science working again for the people and the environment, instead of the crisis industry and bureaucrats.
Join us at the AEF Webinar | Tuesday Nov 24, 2020 | 07:30 PM East Coast DST time
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Peter Ridd, Jo Nova, Alan Moran.
Science has been turned in to a fundraising activity rather than a quest for the truth. Instead of helping the Reef, the Forests and the River, scientists use them as perpetual cash cows. They don’t have incentives to solve problems, only to highlight them. No one is paid to find that Nature is doing OK or that Solar cycles drive the climate. So billions of dollars may be thrown away on fashionable but irrelevant quests — money which could be put to much better use.
We’ll discuss how Australia’s three big environmental issues are stuck in scientific ruts and discuss what can be done to get science back on track. Would some kind of official watchdog help, or will any formal unit […]
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November 16, 2020 at 11:06AM
