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posted by cmn32480 on Sunday June 11 2017, @08:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the i-wanna-play-with-THOSE-kids dept.

French President Emmanuel Macron is offering large grants to attract foreign scientists:

Just a few hours after President Donald Trump announced on 1 June that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, French President Emmanuel Macron pledged in a video to "make our planet great again" by intensifying efforts to combat climate change -- and inviting U.S. researchers who might be unhappy with Trump to work in France.

The French government followed up on 8 June by unveiling a website aimed at attracting foreign scientists with 4-year grants worth up to €1.5million each.

But while some U.S. researchers say the invitation is intriguing, it has irritated some French scientists, who say the move raises concerns about their nation's commitment to homegrown science. In particular, some French researchers are disappointed that the new Macron government offered grants to foreign researchers before answering their own recent call to shore up funding for struggling research institutes.

"Instead [of a commitment to stable domestic science funding], we get a fancy website which is more an empty shell than anything else," says Olivier Berné, an astrophysicist and CNRS researcher at the Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse. He helped organize the March for Science in France, as well as a letter from 1,500 scientists to France's research minister that spelled out 10 funding priorities for the new government.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by julian on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:41PM (4 children)

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 11 2017, @09:41PM (#523967)

    Statistically you are more likely to kill yourself, deliberately, than to be killed by a terrorist.

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  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:11PM (1 child)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:11PM (#523988) Journal

    Not likely enough, in this jerkoff's case. More's the pity.

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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:46PM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 11 2017, @10:46PM (#524004) Journal

      Not likely enough, in this jerkoff's case.

      Don't bet on it. With the potholes and self-driving trucks, not even his mother's basement is a safe place.

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  • (Score: 2) by Entropy on Monday June 12 2017, @06:49AM (1 child)

    by Entropy (4228) on Monday June 12 2017, @06:49AM (#524155)

    You're more likely to commit suicide(19.5/100000) than to be killed by a drunk driver(5/100000)...does that mean drunk driving isn't a big deal too?

    • (Score: 1) by fierce on Monday June 12 2017, @11:46AM

      by fierce (4087) on Monday June 12 2017, @11:46AM (#524288)

      Obviously the parent poster was refering to killing yourself by accident.