I politici di Destra e Sinistra, ignari di che cosa sia davvero la comunità scientifica e il merito, considerano Rita Levi Montalcini almost a "Holy" and blurted out to Radio Radical science historian Gilberto Corbellini (under the heading Marathon Man "), interviewed by a good Mirella Parachini which hid the embarrassment with elegance. What happened? Nothing, according to the newspapers, which touched a typical Italian fear reverentialis have ignored the issue. If it were not for the usual English, today we would know nothing.
The only break in the wall of silence was embarrassed Il Sole-24 Ore, of which we give below the article, which does not go into details of the funding, but at least talks about the excommunication of Nature .
was scatenatissimo Corbellini, president of the radical Coscioni Association for freedom of scientific research, but also spoke of the millions of Euros of state funding. After all, you know, the radicals are not granted even to friends, national glory and the saints. They want transparency, respect for rules and merit, and control of funds for the money - a lot of money - granted to research institutes. This is quite liberal. So little happens in Italy. Because in science, perhaps most important - if possible - that the free market, competition is fierce and ferocious, and all must prove with evidence and giving an account of everything.
Nah, pursues the good Corbellini, the usual "attitude provincial" than Italy. Come to order. The journal Nature
, weekly science which last year had a nice dedicated to 100 years of Levi Montalcini, taken from this blog now harshly criticized, even by a editorial ("Self-inflicted damage "), the scientist, for his authoritarian attitude in the management of the institute EBRI (European Brain Research Institute), research institution specializing in neurobiology, which led to the commissioner of the Board of Directors and the resignation Scientific Council in which sat three Nobel laureates. En passant, Nature is also a way to criticize - and rightly so - and typical bureaucratic state-run research in Italy. Here, however, it would seem that private initiative, so to speak, so there is no peace on the Peninsula.
Well, nobody talks about it. Why the scandal touches a national glory. Meanwhile, Italy has made a "fool" atrocious at international level, their research, on which we have on the eyes of the international community.
And it is bipartisan, that is typically Italian. Both the government and Prodi, Berlusconi is the one assigned to his research institution million €. Without any control over the scientific results. "While Europe is directing research in their thirties - ironically Corbellini - Italy relies on a center of excellence to a scientist 101 years."
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This blog - as you can see the bollard to the right, down - shows the name of Levi Montalcini top of the list of his "character," liberal morality and therefore wants it to be among the first to give voice to those who critical issues with - it seems - not without some foundation, always ready to accommodate any response of the person concerned. But meanwhile, we see
's article A. Massarenti, on Sole-24 Ore, 31 January, the only so far out on the mainstream press. NICO VALERIO
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NATURE AGAINST THE MONTALCINI
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Italy in the research, the work of its most prestigious and beloved representative, the Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi Montalcini, 101 years, is "self-inflicted" heavy "damage." So he says, bluntly, the title of an editorial in the latest issue of Nature. The EBRI (European Brain Research Institute), founded the institute in 2002 and chaired by the Italian biologist, will reset to its will, its own board of directors and then take it to the commissioner.
It thus risks to destroy, "With autocratic action," says Nature, that had to be "a center of excellence for brain research," and "a unique opportunity to create an institution in Italy for a truly international stature." The Scientific Committee had agreed to serve on some of the best researchers in this field, including three awards Nobel.Sono its most influential members of the board to be irritated by the "unilateral steps", also contrary to the regulations of the Ebro, followed by Rita Levi Montalcini since last November.
According to the scientist, the foreign members could not follow important discussions and understand the documents in Italian: "But the scientific institutions usually conduct their international high-level meetings in English, the international language of science, and translate the documents whenever it is necessary. " Not only
. Rita Levi Montalcini was also accused of "unreliability" some of them, wounding more "active and enthusiastic scholars who have often had to get up at dawn to attend meetings arranged with very little notice." It is true that last year Luigi Amadio, the director of the Saint Lucia Foundation, which hosts free Ebri in his house, had threatened cuts to the users for too many unpaid bills, but the other directors do not have guilt. Rita Levi Montalcini
If you continue in his action, as it seems determined to do, the willingness of foreigners seems destined to collapse. Members of the Scientific Committee, outraged by this behavior, they are debating whether to resign. "The end of the Ebro would be a great disappointment for the most talented young people who work there, one of which has just won a major European funding. And Italy, which already creaking scientific image would suffer a further blow.
But it would be a tragedy for a well loved and respected researcher what is Montalcini, who did so much for science in his long life, and that now threatens the support of the great neuroscientists who had helped her. " It remains one hope, he concludes «Nature»: che il prefetto di Roma non accetti le sue argomentazioni. L'invito è a incontrarsi in maniera formale e aperta con gli amministratori e ascoltarne i consigli «piuttosto che agire d'impulso come sta facendo ora». ARMANDO MASSARENTI
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JAZZ . Un bel brano irruento e vorticoso, Bridge (5:15) che mostra il lungo assolo del sassofonista tenore e stilista dello stile hard-bop Sonny Rollins nel 1963, in trio con Jim Hall alla chitarra, Bob Cranshaw al contrabbasso, e Ben Riley alla batteria.
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