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SUZUKI – Don’t cut CBC; it could be a beacon in these turbulent times

IF WE MEASURED the amount of space and time devoted to issues in news outlets, we would conclude audiences are most interested in politics, business, sports and entertainment. This is astonishing when we consider the impact of science when applied by industry, medicine and the military. I was born in 1936 when smallpox ravaged millions annually (it’s been extinct for decades), polio was a feared childhood disease, and we didn’t have television, jet travel, computers, cellphones, penicillin, plastics, DDT, CFCs, satellites… the list is long and I’m not really that old! Change is inevitable, and science provides the best assessment of the state of a rapidly changing planet. When I returned to Canada in 1962 after studying in the United States for eight years, I was shocked by the lack of government support for science here, which reflected the population’s lack of interest in science. I was a scientist so it was in my self-interest for the public to understand why science matters, how new discoveries in areas such as my field, genetics, might affect their lives. Science was and is too important to be used selectively to justify or promote political and corporate agendas. I chose to work in [...]

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SUZUKI – Don’t cut CBC; it could be a beacon in these turbulent times

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