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“Europe, and Germany in particular, has outstanding scientists, institutions and innovation systems. The support for research in Germany is enviable, and the path from lab to market is historically strong,” says Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor.
“But advice to government is fragmented; during the pandemic, countries without a science advisor were absent from critical international coordination calls. A national science advisor integrates advice from diverse stakeholders into coherent, impartial recommendations for the government, not on behalf of a single institution, but for the benefit of the country.”
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Those so-called economy sages are merely a bunch of neoliberal ideologues who have been systematically pushing for ever more austerity and privatisation and are at very least partially to blame for the decades of systematic neglect of infrastructure, and the ever rising wealth and income inequality in Germany. If not because of instigating it, then at least for serving as a pseudoscientific fig leaf to legitimise it.
Some of them are, but definitely not all of them