Run For The Science

Abstract

To begin, best wishes for the new year to you, dear RBGG reader! We are delighted to present the first issue of 2020 and, in this editorial, will consider a highly contemporary topic: the role of science in our lives. In the same year that our first thematic issue is published (in N6, although, as RBGG operates a continuous publication system, the first articles published are already available), tackling public policies related to aging, I would like to offer here some reflections on the value given to scientific information today. Recently, certain attention grabbing phrases on the internet have set the tone for Brazilian researchers, stating that "only science can stop a pandemic" and "the research institutes, universities, national health service (or SUS), the health regulatory agency (or Anvisa) and thousands of civil servants will save us". We can take the current scenario, of this most recent pandemic to threaten us, as an example.