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We Must Defend Science if We Want a Prosperous Future

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Date: 2015-04-06 00:10:48
Blog: Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal
URL: http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2015/04/05/we-must-defend-science-if-we-want-a-prosperous-future/

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Originally published on The Conversation. It definitely applies as much (and likely more) to America as Australia. Barry Jones, University of Melbourne Today’s Australians are, by far, the best educated cohort in our history –- on paper, anyway -– but this is not reflected in the quality of our political discourse. We appear to be lacking in courage, judgement, capacity to analyse and even simple curiosity, except about immediate personal …

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