Science, ideology and daily life

摘要

Despite years of scientific effort to develop useful and safe biotech crops, ideologies have prevailed andgeneticallymodified (GM-)crops havestill not been fully accepted by today’s society. This leads one toreflect on the role of Science in society, on what makes scientists credible, and how scientists themselvesunderstandthe world welive in. While Science remains a black box for many of the uninitiated, scientiststhemselves are also generally less-interested in sociology or the economy, such that the coevolution ofscienceand daily lifeis often frustrated by incomprehension or even disinterest on both sides.