Originally published on LinkedIn in October 2017 (but still important) Without scientists, the only thing you can get out of a forest are the trees. At the next the Biodiversity COP in 2018 in Egypt, Brazil should take a position on a topic that has sparked controversy in 2016: How to ensure benefit sharing from access […]
The problem with trying to fix an error after making many mistakes is that we tend to err in the opposite direction. You know the saying: first by omission and then by excess? In statistics, we say there are two types of errors: “Type I error” and “Type II error,” which are terrible names because […]
The question poised by a consultant during a conversation, that would offend an lepidopterologist, is the key to answer another question: how do we fund more biodiversity molecular research? That is the conversation I had with Joe Lopez from the Global Invertebrate Genome Alliance – GIGA, whose global meeting starts next week. Most of the […]
An essay based on the article Sarewitz, 2016. Saving Science. The New Atlantis During the COVID19 pandemic, once again, science has brought the solution to a health, humanitarian, social and economic crisis. Scientists, distributed in universities, research institutes, startups, large and small companies, have improved diagnostic methods, tested drugs, developed, produced and tested vaccines that will […]
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