Entropy: Acknowledging and battling it

K. VijayRaghavan

National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore

When scientists give in and do not challenge themselves in their work, when they, institutions and their heads each blame "the system' for all our woes, when we are part of the problem and not part of the solution: We have only ourselves to blame for the mess we are in. Worse, we are probably culpably guilty. Mental and physical sloth at every level of academia is as serious a problem as those others (such as plagiarism and misconduct) being addressed by this meeting.