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Frustration builds over lengthy delay in revamping Mexico’s science law

Mexican researchers fear that a polarizing bill could ruin the chances of overhauling the nation’s science system.
  1. Emiliano Rodríguez Mega
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It has been almost a year and a half since Mexico’s Congress missed its deadline to approve a bill that would drastically overhaul how science and technology are governed. Worried about the lack of progress since then, researchers fear that political wrangling and a lack of consensus might waste a prime opportunity to boost Mexican science.

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Nature 606, 20-21 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01408-5

Disclosure: While getting his undergraduate degree, Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, the reporter of this story, co-authored a paper in 2015 with María Elena Álvarez-Buylla Roces, the current head of Conacyt.

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