Why scientists must learn to listen: five minutes with . . . Roula Inglesi-Lotz

“Gone are the times that the scientist would sit in ‘his’ lab and produce knowledge and say, ‘These are the problems I’ve solved and that’s it.’ We are past that, it’s gone. It’s not ‘my way or the highway’ anymore. The best researchers I’ve known and the best studies we have seen are the ones that are informed by communities, informed by society, and the ones that make an impact by understanding the needs and the conditions of what happens where.“One key example of this comes from Nobel laureates in economics, Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. In their book Poor Economics they discuss a rural community in India, where they discovered there’s a big difference between the deaths in baby boys and baby girls. And these deaths were all connected to water related diseases. So, the obvious thing to do was for the local government and scientists to examine the…
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