Kast Questions Spending on University Research and Says They Can End up in “a Beautiful Book,” but without Generating Jobs
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“Sometimes 100 million, 500 million, for an investigation that ends in a beautiful book, tied, in the library. How many works did it generate? None. Except for the people who dedicated a lot of time to the study. It can be a great study, but it did not translate into anything, in concrete work for the people.” The phrase belongs to José Antonio Kast. The idea was raised on Tuesday at one of his citizen meetings ‘Present President’, held in Puert…
The president of Chile, José Antonio Kast, has charged against public funding for scientific research developed by universities and centers of study in the country. “Sometimes 100 million, 500 million, for research that ends in a precious book, tied, in the library. How many jobs did he generate? None, except for the people who dedicated a lot of time to the study. It can be a great study, but it did not translate into concrete work for people,”…
The Citizen “The figures do not fit,” with this forceful statement, the physicist and scientific divulgator Sebastián Molina, came out at the pace of the statements of José Antonio Kast, who again questioned the use of public resources in universities and scientific research. In a disclaimer published on his social networks, Molina denied point by point the statements of the president, generating a new chapter in the debate on the financing of s…
The renowned Chilean astronomer defended the contribution of science and accused a “uninformed” view of the development of knowledge in our country.
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