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Step back from scientific hubris

Nature Sustainability volume 4, pages 1015–1016 (2021)Cite this article

Water research has fallen into a ‘techno optimism’ that tries to solve all problems despite not asking fundamental questions, according to Stephanie Pincetl of the University of California, Los Angeles. She talks to Nature Sustainability about the challenges facing the field and science writ large.

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Scarrow, R. Step back from scientific hubris. Nat Sustain 4, 1015–1016 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00787-3

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