SCIENCE IN SOCIETY: Caring for our Futures in Turbulent Times
Now is really the time to rethink the relationship between science and society in its multiple manifestations. Says the European Science Foundation. Because there was a time where a ‘social contract’ successfully ring-fenced the autonomy of the scientific enterprise against any social scrutiny, on the promise of scientific research being beneficial for the public good in the long run. But over the last decades this social contract has often been revisited, particularly as all public expenditure has been fiercely scrutinised.