New humiliation: 23 Nobel laureates say Temer threatens Brazil.
Post-coup Brazil, with a president accused of corruption, obstruction of justice, and leading a criminal organization, is a succession of humiliations; the most recent is a letter signed by 23 Nobel Prize winners, the most important award in science, denouncing how the investment cuts promoted by the PMDB party are threatening Brazil; the document refers to the 44% cut in this year's budget of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), as well as the prospect of a new cut in 2018; "This will damage Brazil for many years, with the dismantling of internationally recognized research groups and a brain drain that will affect the best young scientists" in the country, the researchers write.
247 - Another international humiliation for Brazil.
Budget cuts in Science and Technology "seriously compromise Brazil's future" and need to be reviewed "before it's too late," according to a group of 23 Nobel Prize winners, who sent a letter to Michel Temer on Friday, the 29th, recommending changes in the government's stance regarding the sector.
The document, sent by email to the President's office, refers to the 44% cut in this year's budget for the Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovation and Communications (MCTIC), as well as the prospect of a further cut in 2018 - which should be around 15%, if the Annual Budget Bill sent by the government to Congress is approved as is.
"This will damage Brazil for many years, with the dismantling of internationally recognized research groups and a brain drain that will affect the country's best young scientists," the researchers write.
The letter is signed by French physicist Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and 22 other Nobel laureates in the fields of Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine. "We know that Brazil's economic situation is very difficult, but we urge you to reconsider your decision before it is too late," the letter concludes.
“The situation is tragic, there is no other word to describe it,” researcher David Gross, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 and also a signatory of the letter, told the newspaper Estado. He predicts that many young Brazilian researchers will give up their scientific careers or migrate to other countries that are more favorable to science.
The information is from Report by Herton Escobar in Estado de S.Paulo.