Taking the right to science seriously can help spark a new ethos of curiosity-driven research for the planet.
- Professor and UNESCO Chair-holder, Australian National University
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted how much modern societies are governed by statistics. Despite their objective appearance, these numbers gain their strength from very human relationships.
COVID-19 presents a social as well as a medical crisis, and we will need many different kinds of expertise to survive it
In Australia, the next government will need to meet the challenge of refreshing the social licence between science, government and the many and diverse communities that make up our nation.
Promising scientific consensus is a perilous principle on which to found meaningful engagement between experts and the public.
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