Victoria Metcalf
What are the top 10 science 'fails' of 2014? In no particular order:
Dr Paul Fraser, CSIRO's head of oceans and atmosphere, has taken a voluntary redundancy. Photo: Photo: John Woudstra The government has been accused of having little regard for science, a claim illustrated by it having made significant cuts to CSIRO and other science agencies. How much has it actually reduced CSIRO funding?
Now Stefan Grimm is dead. Despite having a good publication record, he failed to do sufficiently expensive research, so he was fired (or at least threatened with being fired).
