{"id":98264,"date":"2019-11-07T23:42:37","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/science-must-move-with-the-times"},"modified":"2019-11-07T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T07:42:37","slug":"science-must-move-with-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/science-must-move-with-the-times","title":{"rendered":"Science must move with the times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/science-must-move-with-the-times2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But Manichean views and tropes of \u2018dual use\u2019 miss the point. Some of the key questions that confront science today are about whether its methods, practices and ethos, pursued with very little real change since Maxwell\u2019s day, are fit for purpose in the light of the challenges \u2014 conceptual and practical \u2014 we now face. Can science continue to fulfil its social contract and to reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future? Or does something need to shift?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Research cannot fulfil its social contract and reach new horizons by advancing on the same footing into the future, argues Philip Ball in the last essay of a series on how the past 150 years have shaped today\u2019s science system, to mark <i>Nature<\/i>\u2019s anniversary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But Manichean views and tropes of \u2018dual use\u2019 miss the point. Some of the key questions that confront science today are about whether its methods, practices and ethos, pursued with very little real change since Maxwell\u2019s day, are fit for purpose in the light of the challenges \u2014 conceptual and practical \u2014 we now face. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}