German academics resist ‘reductive’ public communication plans

Germany’s research ministry wants academia to provide the public with ‘answers’, but scholars say it’s not that simple

Published on
December 16, 2019
Last updated
December 18, 2019
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False perspective: 13 German scholarly associations, largely in the humanities and social sciences, have criticised the approach as reductive

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"German academics have spoken out against a new government push for better communication with the public, arguing that it risks reducing scholarship to the mere production of “useful facts”." Or apparently production of potentially biased 'facts' to suit a political agenda. Good luck to the academic who fights such things, too many 'facts' are anything but a 'fact'.

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