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From the mouth of Apollo
Author(s) -
Jacobs Howy
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2013.41
Subject(s) - apollo , astrobiology , environmental ethics , political science , history , philosophy , biology , ecology
The astonishing case of the seismologists being held partly responsible for the destruction wreaked by the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake belies a fundamental misperception of the role of scientists in society. Howy peers into a dark future where this misunderstanding has taken hold.