Thursday 30 August 2007

Lets' remember the science....

Nature 448 23 August 2007 p.839
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v448/n7156/full/448839a.html

An editorial published in Nature this week has questioned the increasing trend for governments, particularly in the UK and US, to consider the economic returns from investment in research, with a growing focus on competitiveness and stresses the need for scientists to continue to highlight the importance of basic research. This sounds like emminent sense to me and is very relevant for land and water science! We must not put the cart before the horse, whilst we need to realise outcomes these must not run ahead of investmenst in basic knwoledge. Outcomes only arise from basic knowledge.

Phil

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