Scientists mismatched in return bout
| AN OUTSIDERS VIEW |
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| Ken Fuller |
A year ago, this column discussed a debate between Flor Lacanilao, retired professor of marine biology at UP and Roger Posadas, professor at the UP Technology Management Center. They recently had an under-reported return bout (it was at a small ring in cyberspace), in which Posadas coasted to victory with a TKO in the third.
Initially, Posadas allowed Lacanilao to dictate the terms of the fight, jogging in place and back-pedaling while his plucky opponent threw a few inaccurate punches, and at this stage it seemed Lacanilao was unaware there was another fighter in the ring.
In his State of the Nation Address, Noynoy Aquino had, said Lacanilao, once again ignored the need to beef up scientific research. While the president announced that UP and the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) had teamed up “to develop a prototype monorail system, which could potentially provide a home grown mass transport solution that would cost us as little as P100 million per kilometer,” Lacanilao demanded that they “show — with properly-published studies — the cost-effective, safety, and — most important — capability claim[s] for these innovations.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110913com5.html
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