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U of T President Emeritus David Naylor calls for continued support of science: University Affairs

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U of T President Emeritus Dr. David Naylor spoke about the importance of investment in science at a research summit in Ottawa last month (photo by Tim Fraser)

Speaking two years after he and his colleagues warned about flat-lining investments in research, 重口味SM President Emeritus Dr. David Naylor recently reiterated the need for continued support of science to ensure the country鈥檚 future prosperity.

An article this week in  recounted a keynote speech in which Naylor urged the scientific community to be in 鈥減ermanent campaign mode.鈥 The summit, held last month in Ottawa, was organized by the Canadian Consortium for Research, an umbrella group representing 50,000 researchers and 650,000 students at universities, government labs and the private sector.

鈥淲e have thousands of people dying of measles because ignorance is an epidemic,鈥 said Naylor, who led a blue-ribbon panel that looked at the state of science funding in Canada and made sweeping recommendations for reform

鈥淎nti-science, anti-research views are a contagious, malign force in the world. Research is about the entire country鈥檚 future 鈥 public, private sector and civil society. It鈥檚 about talent, not technology. It鈥檚 about people, not patents. It鈥檚 about creating a critical capacity in young people and not about commercialization.鈥

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