Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?

2024/12/04 by Helen Pearson · 3 voices · 2 citations
Medicine · #Science, Research, and Medicine

paper · pdf · doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03906-0

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• Pearson, H. (2024). Science could solve some of the world’s biggest problems. Why aren’t governments using it?. @nature.com 636(8041), 26-30. doi.org/10.1038/d415... [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]
• 'Eighty per cent of respondents thought policymakers lack sufficient understanding of science — but 73% said that researchers don’t understand how policy works. “It’s a constant tension between the sc [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]
• Constant tension between the scientifically illiterate and the politically clueless doi.org/10.1038/d415... [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]