“Science and its teachings are free,” it says in the constitution. The practice is different, scientists note in the current Pragmaticus
Schaan/Vienna (OTS) – “Nothing is more detrimental to freedom and therefore to the progress of science than compulsory confession. And this is generally true, because science is not about knowledge, but about knowledge,” criticizes philosopher Konrad Paul Liessmann in the magazine’s current cover story The Pragmaticus the instrumentalization of science for political purposes.
Historian and sociologist Sandra Kostner describes how dogmatists harm research and society. The physicist and cabaret artist Vince Ebert criticizes the fact that the zeitgeist and politics dictate the direction. And the neuroscientist Manuela Macedonia describes how difficult it is to even finance your own research. Their conclusion: “The times in which universities enabled free research ‘without regard to whether it might have any benefit’ (as Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger demands) are long gone.”
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