Nerdy Science Blog

Read this from kj’s blog, a fellow blogger I’d know for sometime through online. He was asking why are we (Malaysia) cannot be down-to-earth in sciences, in respond to one of our previous posts, Malaysian Cabinet Really Wanted To Send Another Space Traveller, wrote by WTJ.

I attended a seminar talking about the management and policy in science area. Too bad I don’t have management background to understand all the management and policy terms/thingy, I can barely understand what were they talking about. Otherwise I would have share it.

But the Q&A section was pretty fun, some of the audiences pointed out certain general issues that have long bothering us.

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In my opinion, science and politics are something that should be co-existed. Without the help of politics, the development of science will be slowed down a lot. However, politicians will choose which “science” to develop for their own favor, which I think is bad.

“What these scientists say publicly should not be vetted through the science minister’s and the prime minister’s offices to ensure they contain the government’s key messages,” said Eric Abetz, industry and science spokesman for the opposition. “This is politicization of science.”

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