Artigo de um querido colega (formado em 1961)que há muito tempo não encontramos. Enviado pelo AMICOR Reginaldo Hollanda Albuquerque (Brasília)
One should not try to guess what the future holds without considering
the past. I state this only to justify my references to personal experiences in
the Faculty of Medicine when intending to scrutinize the future that awaits the
pathologists. (THIS SENTENCE IS NOT MINE. GMB)
In the 1970s, the nonsense that the
Brazilian scientific agencies should preferably support projects of applied
sciences became a reality. The stupidity of unqualified ministries is not a
contemporary issue. This fact upset me substantially, since I could not see any
sense in classifying science in “pure” and “applied” terms. I think that the
predictability of benefits offered by the fruits of science is crucially
complex and, to say the least, doubtful; it is much better to classify science
as either “good” or “bad”. The dominant silliness also detracted my line of
research, which consisted of the investigation of pulmonary microcirculation
permeability using rats as an experimental model. I could no longer get
resources for my projects. As the traditional wisdom taught me to dance
according to the music, I submitted a “Project on Atmospheric Pollution” to
FAPESP (Research Support Foundation of the State of São Paulo), with the help
of professors Lawther and Spector from the St. Bartholomew’s Medical School of
London where I did my post doctorate. After all, I knew a bit about rat lungs
and suspected that they should suffer from air pollution just like us and,
thus, at least I would continue to investigate pulmonary pathology./...//.../
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