Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Nature Editorial: Politics will be poorer without Angela Merkel’s scientific approach. Really!

I had a good laugh when I saw this Nature editorial today! What are these Nature editors smoking!

The socialist chancellor Merkel was on of the worst German chancellors since 1948! Did she not abruptly and irrationally shut off all German nuclear power plants in the response of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident? Just to mention one of her worst decisions!

"German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a theoretical quantum chemist from the former East Germany, will stand down after federal elections on 26 September. This will mark the end of 16 years in the post and a 30-year political career.

Merkel leaves behind a powerful legacy for research and for evidence-based thinking. Over the years, her administration has strengthened and internationalized German science. Every government is imperfect when it comes to protecting peoples’ rights, promoting security and well-being, and administering justice, but Merkel brought compassion and an insistence — unusual among politicians, even in the time of COVID-19 — that decision-making benefits from evidence. All of this will make her a hard act to follow. ..."

Politics will be poorer without Angela Merkel’s scientific approach The departing German chancellor’s support for science and rigour in policymaking has proved transformative — except on climate change.

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