Coronavirus: EU top scientist resigns citing politics and red tape

[BeckyDem]

1 hour ago

The president of the European Union's ERC scientific research council has resigned after three months in the job with an attack on the EU's scientific governance and political operations.

Mauro Ferrari said he had lost faith in the system after he failed to set up a special programme to fight coronavirus.

The EU's executive, the European Commission said it regretted his resignation at such an early stage.

It said it had the most comprehensive measures to combat the virus.


(As the tragedy of the pandemic became clear Prof Ferrari says he pushed for a special programme directed at combating Covid-19, with the world's best scientists having the resources to fight it with new drugs, vaccines, diagnostic tools and behavioural approaches based on sciences "to replace the oft-improvised intuitions of political leaders".

His proposals were rejected unanimously, he said, by the council's governing body because the ERC funded "bottom-up" research proposed by scientists themselves and did not see the beneficial impact on society as a justification for funding.)

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Good for him!

[dlk]

1. A loss for everyone else

This is an emergency that calls for an all hands on deck approach.

[BeckyDem]

2. True, yet he and others will continue to get no where unless someone comes out

and tells the truth. The public must know what these idiots are doing behind the scenes or it may never stop.