Poll: The EU Referendum: How Will You Vote? (April Poll)
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Scientists disagreeing with each other? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
It's certainly the case that some scientists are not pro-EU but scientists are much more pro-EU than the general population: here's the Nature poll - 83% of UK researchers support Bremain compared to just 12% backing Brexit, and 78% said Brexit would harm UK science.
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The leave scientists make up for a much much smaller proportion than the pro EU scientists.
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But are they the "More Productive" Scientists ?
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They wouldn't be unproductive if they get funding and they wouldn't be researchers/scientists without something to research.
Funding is given with a focus on innovation, crossing disciplinary boundaries, emerging new fields and application which is unconventional/innovative.
Funding is given with a focus on innovation, crossing disciplinary boundaries, emerging new fields and application which is unconventional/innovative.
Yeah, the remain Scientists group are trying to put the name "Science" next to the choice remain, as if they have Scientific reasons for wanting to remain, rather than just because they think they could get less funding (I think we should increase the funding Science gets personally).
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Less and more funding directly affects advancement of science. The pro leave scientists feel that we will be no worse off if funding is made up elsewhere, not that we will be in a better position.
The funding our government gives is pathetic considering the research that takes place here.
Also, more funding =/= higher wages for researchers
The funding our government gives is pathetic considering the research that takes place here.
Also, more funding =/= higher wages for researchers
Here's their About Us page.
One of them is a GP, another is a political history graduate and another is a PhD student! Hardly the great and the good, is it?
History graduate lol. There goes my tea
Hahahahaha!!!
Mike worked for several months as an intern student at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
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More buffoonery from Boris.
I can't think of another politician who has such an aversion to the truth.
I can't think of another politician who has such an aversion to the truth.
There's one running for POTUS
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The amount of funding that science gets from the EU is not the major issue (in fact, it's not a big amount of the funding pie), the importance of collaboration is. Being in the EU makes it much easier for us to collaborate with researchers in the EU.
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Also gives us a steady supply of talented researchers to make up for our poor number of graduates
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Isn't our illustrious chancellor just a history graduate? He's voting in.
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Does that reflect on other people who vote in?
I considered votes independent of each other, or we would just ask the one guy whos opinion matters and then the issue settled.
They are fairly responsible when it comes to spending.
http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/re...anguage='en'&srt=contentUpdateDate:decreasing
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He doesn't 'lead' a group called Scientists for Britain.
With that hair, I doubt Mike the scientist could lead a zebra crossing.
Genuine question: Why?
I hear a lot of this kind of talk but in real terms why?
I work for a multi-national and communicate for my daily work with people in Germany, South Africa the US and China. The heads of our company have already said that Brexit will mean a very small amount of import / export paperwork, but that it is really no big deal.
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Because scientists can freely move n work from one lab to another, reagardless of nationality. Because bright kids from Estonia don't need much paperwork to develop skills at any university willing to invest in them. Free movement is crucial for science in Europe nowadays.
But again this is just form filling, if the talent needs to move in the age of online application forms and automation is it really that big a deal? Enough to compromise our sovereignty over?
I have colleagues that moved to the US for work and some that moved to Germany. Their experience was really not that different. The main issues were over finding housing etc.
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