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And now we're full-circle. A pity for the public (if a blessing for the
science-communication industry) that it takes campaigns, appeals, training
courses, plentiful prodding and, of course, public funding before you can
get a few of the scientists to imagine they could use a plausible excuse for
whatever it is they're up to in the lab?
Chris
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This is a spur to put before the PSCI COM community a discussion I had
recently with a Very Senior person in the Research Council hierarchy. He was
talking about the fact that few RCs seem to have done much about their
"licence to operate".
GM food, MMR and various other issues have come up. But do the research
councils get involved in the business of protecting their territory with the
same vigour that many companies bring to the subject?
Many organisations will take your money and help you with such activities.
SustainAbility, for example, is great at telling companies how to manage
their credibility in the environment domain.
Is there anything comparable going on in the academic sector?
Is it needed?
Have scientists blown their credibility in some way?
I ask the questions to get a feeling for the general view. Then I will beat
the senior person around the head with this.
MK
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