{"id":59616,"date":"2021-10-01T19:03:52","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59616"},"modified":"2021-10-01T19:03:52","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T00:03:52","slug":"the-corruption-of-science-an-international-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59616","title":{"rendered":"The Corruption of Science | An International Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Corruption of Science | An International Issue<\/a><\/h3>\n
Censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information are a threat to science.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Editor\u2019s note:<\/strong>\u00a0Last week, Mexico\u2019s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for 31 scientists, researchers and academics formerly employed by Conacyt on corruption charges \u2014 or, as Dr. Toledo might say, diversion of public funds that did not benefit the country. The scientific community has responded with outrage\u00a0in this developing story<\/a>\u00a0that exemplifies Dr. Toledo\u2019s thesis, published in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada on Aug. 24.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We are living at the pinnacle or crest of corruption in the world\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the use and abuse of political and economic power, knowledge or hierarchical position. The list includes businessmen, tycoons, bankers, public employees, presidents and prime ministers, kings, princes and princesses, priests, bishops and archbishops, diplomats, rectors, sports people, art and science and a long et cetera. This phenomenon coincides with the highest concentration of wealth in history represented by the profits of automobile, oil, coal, nuclear, mining, food, pharmaceutical, chemical, agrochemical, biotechnological, cement, tourism, metallurgical and telecommunications corporations, arms and weapons manufacturers, and all the rest.<\/p>\n

To achieve this, corporate power put the scientific and technical knowledge of each branch at its service. This meant the creation of an army of specialized researchers capable of efficiently addressing segments of knowledge without questioning either the ethical implications or risks for humanity or the planetary environment. This technoscience with obedient researchers was achieved by the imposition of a dogma:<\/p>\n

all scientific and technical knowledge is morally good, since there is only one Science, immaculate and at the service of development, peace and humanity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Corruption of Science | An International Issue Censorship of scientists and the manipulation, distortion, and suppression of scientific information are a threat to science. Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0Last week, Mexico\u2019s chief prosecutor requested arrest warrants for 31 scientists, researchers and academics formerly employed by Conacyt on corruption charges \u2014 or, as Dr. Toledo might say, diversion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12972,1769,31113,705,31879],"class_list":["post-59616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-corporate-power","tag-corruption","tag-esperanza-project","tag-science","tag-victor-m-toledo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59617,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59616\/revisions\/59617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}