Francesco Riganti Fulginei

Member of Italian Scientists Association - Isa @Presidenza Del Consiglio Dei Ministri

IT

The curricula of all the Full Professors who have expressed the wish to belong to the A.S.N. Commission have been published on the M.I.U.R.(Italian Ministry for Education, Universities and Research) website. It emerges that there are roughly three thousand Full Professors with the scientific qualifications required to be selected as Commissioners.On the basis of the definition of \"scientist\" provided by the Physicist Edoardo Amaldi, who believes that the authors or co-authors of scientific works cited in scientific publications may be deemed “scientists”, the Full Professors qualified to act as Commissioners of the A.S.N. may be considered fully-fledged Scientists. This category should also include all other Scientists who are not Full Professors, including the country’s best Associate Professors and Researchers.Each of us, in our own area of expertise, is well aware of the mistakes that are made daily. Regarding the environment and climate, for example, the need to reduce CO2 emissions and greenhouse gases is scientifically proven, but far too often governments still make decisions that go in the opposite direction. We need to reduce CO2 drastically by 2030 and eliminate it by 2050. The medical sciences have unequivocally demonstrated the effectiveness of vaccines, but sometimes politics jumps onto the bandwagon of anti-scientific belief. Some politicians claim that retirement of the elderly favours recruitment of the young, while it is demonstrated that high employment rates of the elderly is accompanied by high employment rate of young people. Scientists need to help politicians make the right choices, so that no mistakes be made for which the new generations of citizens may be obliged to pay.

Università degli Studi di Roma Tre

Full Professor