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The SBS gathers together the Swiss professional and amateur botanists. The society enables the exchange of skills and promotes the botanical research in Switzerland. Additional key aspects are the commitment for field botany and the conservation of the flora and its habitat.more

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Horizons: New paths for science

Science is taking a hard look in the mirror, and it’s for the best. The problems it faces are increasingly clear: reproducibility, fraud and statistical bias, to name but a few. Back in 2013 the news magazine The Economist featured the front-page headline “How Science Goes Wrong”. For sure, it may be somewhat alarmist to talk about ‘a crisis of science’, but it does embody the idea behind the critical, unwavering view of the scientific community on the state of affairs in its own house.

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