Is there a creativity deficit in science?
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No, it's not. It's relevant now more than ever before. With so much information available, mastery now takes longer and requires more synthesis and interdisciplinary understanding. While attaining a dangerously superficial and incomplete - yet seemingly complete - understanding of a field or issue is facile, expertise is more valuable than ever.
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In Australia our federal government has stripped money from our premier scientific research organisation - the CSIRO (they developed Wi-Fi amongst their other breakthroughs) - and emphasised research on those projects with demonstrable economic benefits. It's another strain of the issue described in this article; truly breakthrough research may not clearly advertise its economic benefits.
Of course, this is the same government that eliminated the Minister for Science (for the first time in a very long time), has the worst environmental track record in our history, and that is led by a Prime Minister who is on the record saying that the science behind climate change is crap.
Of course, this is the same government that eliminated the Minister for Science (for the first time in a very long time), has the worst environmental track record in our history, and that is led by a Prime Minister who is on the record saying that the science behind climate change is crap.
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