STOP WASTAGE OF PUBLIC FUNDS THROUGH THE PORK BARREL OF GREEDY AND DO-NOTHING CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS: PROVIDE ENOUGH FUNDS FOR RESEARCH ON HARNESSING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOR MANUFACTURING! “NAST (National Academy of Science and Technology) is the Philippines’ highest advisory body on science and includes 13 National Scientists and 49 National Academicians from the natural and social sciences, mathematics, agriculture, engineering and medicine. The annual meeting includes many other scientists who are not (yet) NAST members, especially younger ones, presenting papers and getting awards for their research. This year’s meeting highlighted a very practical application of scientific R&D (research and development): addressing poverty. The first day’s presentations were by economists, a horticulturist, a marine scientist, a chemist, an industrial engineer, and a physician, all showing how science and technology can be harnessed to reverse the decline of the Philippine manufacturing sector, a decline seen as a root cause of widespread and persistent poverty. Xxx. The government claims that our being a poor country is why we don’t have enough funds for science, not recognizing that unless more support is provided to scientific R&D, we will remain poor. Xxx.” Michael L. Tan, Inquirer, 7/12/13
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