I think I saw Woke University Abstract Experiment open for [insert amusing band here] etc etc.
Problem with the far-right is that there isn’t much point explaining that university research created things like the Covid vaccine because they don’t believe it was real.
John Blake
Another moment this week where populism collided with research policy
Restore are a hard right fringe, but Rupert Lowe is now on the Public Accounts Committee and used his position to suggest research spending could be "disappearing into a woke university abstract experiment"
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
UKRI leader rebuffs hard right MP saying investing in infrastructure via universities is “a problem”
There's growing unease that the UK's political consensus on support for R&D is fraying, and the rise of populism could break it altogether
In our lead Research Fortnight story today, the new president of the Royal Society of Biology, Melanie Welham, warned “political buy-in could weaken”
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