2017 in Science: The most important science story of the year?
So we can hardly blame non-scientists for getting a little bit confused when this mountain of data is cherry-picked, misrepresented, or drips intermittently across their newsfeed.
Science has the potential to provide solutions to the world’s most pressing problems: Will the gene editing tool Crispr/ Cas9 cure or kill us? Why should I care about dark matter? Is global warming inevitable? And a question that personally keeps me up at night: Why is Alan Duffy always on my TV?
The truth is out there but sometimes the facts can get lost in this tsunami of science.
To ease your existential worry that you’ll never be the ‘suppository of all wisdom’, I have collated the thoughts of some of the world’s greatest minds on the year’s most important discoveries in their fields, so you don’t have to.
It’s OK, you can thank me later.
A Climatologist – Dr Linden Ashcroft
Earlier this year, CSIRO sacked 350 climate scientists. A move that was described as “political vandalism” by scientists.
Nonetheless, science stops for no man, including Malcolm Turnbull, and according to Dr Linden Ashcroft, from Australia’s own Bureau of Meteorology, there’s one publication
