The presentation ceremony of the Frontiers of Knowledge Awards issues a call to strengthen scientific culture as a defense against post-truth and populist leaders
The fourteen awardees in the eight award categories are authors of key contributions in the fight against climate change, the search for new anti-cancer therapies, the conservation of biodiversity, the synthesis of new materials, the safeguarding of security and privacy on the Internet, the development of empirical industrial organization and musical creation.
13 June, 2018
A society deficient in scientific culture is a more vulnerable society. The presentation ceremony of the tenth edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, held this evening in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace in Madrid, issued a call to strengthen society’s scientific culture as a bulwark against decision processes that disregard the evidence on issues of vital collective importance, and, in doing so, pave the way for populist leaders. “The science we have is immensely powerful, but its potential is not being harnessed in individual and, above all, public decisions, because of certain currents that deny its validity or accord it the same weight as mere uninformed opinion,” observed the BBVA Foundation President Francisco González.
