Letter: Promote achievements of world’s scientists

I concur with the opinion of Paul Schultz, who decried the lack of publicity given to the Hawaii State Science and Engineering Fair, and to the future scientists who devoted much time and effort in creating their projects (“Young scientists deserve recognition like athletes,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, April 15).

Science matters. Yet Nobel Prize winners receive little attention, no matter how much their discoveries benefit mankind. Only a few of us can name even one recent Nobel Prize winner in the field of science, while most of us know that Tiger Woods won the Masters golf tournament on Sunday.

Too many of us denigrate facts and science if they don’t conform to our predisposed attitudes and beliefs. It will be science and scientific advances, however, that will save us from the catastrophic consequences of climate change facing our world’s current and future inhabitants.

We must find a way to hail the achievements of scientists.

Robert Griffon

Makiki

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