: How can we get scientists out of their ivory towers and democratise science? #IndiaNEWS Many years ago, I had a conversation with an older friend who had worked in both the corporate world and with

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How can we get scientists out of their ivory towers and democratise science? #IndiaNEWS
Many years ago, I had a conversation with an older friend who had worked in both the corporate world and with civil society. I was then an entitled PhD student who firmly believed that we were the centre of the universe. During the course of our conversation, I found that we both used the words “activist??? and “academic??? frequently. Our categorisation of people as “academics??? and “activists??? was consistent. But where I used “academic??? with a certain reverence, and “activist??? with a hint of disdain, her tone was exactly reversed.For me, academics were capable of thought, reflection and inference (whether they did or did not use it for the betterment of society was irrelevant), while activists were ideology- and agenda-driven, with relatively little rationality. For her, academics may have been respectable, but remained in their ivory towers with little concern for the world (life was academic), while activists (sure, there were good and bad ones) did something about the change in the real world.In the 20-plus years since then, my perspective has changed somewhat. Not that I believe that one should not indulge in the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake. It is in fact one of the inspirational aspects of...Read more

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