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How to solve the crisis of science

Cutthroat competition, isolation, obsession: Marcel Tanner, a leading public health expert, tells swissinfo.ch how modern science can be put back on track for the greater good of society.

Marcel Tanner, a professor for epidemiology and medical parasitology at the University of Basel, was the Director of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH) in Basel from 1997 to 2015. From 1981 to 1984 he ran the outside facility of the Swiss TPH in Ifakara in Tanzania (today the Ifakara Health Institute). He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Brisbane. Since 2016 he has presided over the Swiss Academy of Sciences.
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Scientists should go back to asking questions (Prof. Marcel Tanner, President of the Swiss Academy of Sciences).

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