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Hari ini terbaca tentang suatu kes dimana penulisan ilmiah beberapa penyelidik telah meramalkan koronavirus setahun sebelum ianya berlaku. (klip video di sini ) Soalnya kenapa tidak ada orang yang ambil peduli? Tapi itu bukan soal utama yang ingin dibincangkan disini. Di sini yang dipersoalkan ialah impak penulisan jurnal eksklusif. Kalau ianya tidak memberi impak kepada masyarakat umum, maka  apakah tujuan penulisan ilmiah di dalam journal eksklusif berwasit yang biasanya berbayar untuk diterbitkan dan dibaca. Untuk apa pengetahuan yang ditulis? Untuk bacaan siapa? Mungkin penulis tersebut telah bertungkus lumus menyiarkan dapatannya kepada orang awam dan pihak berkuasa tetapi dihalang atau menghadapi kesukaran tertentu. Yang hairannya kertas tersebut diterbitkan didalam jurnal berwasit open access,(tidak berbayar, secara percuma), namun masih tidak dapat mendapat perhatian ramai. Namun sebagai ahli akademik, saya percaya secara umumnya, berdasarkan tren terkini, kebanyakan ...

Today The Prime Minister, speaking as acting Mnister of Education, delivered a speech streamed live on various channels. One of the issue presented was the the PPSMI, the teaching and education of Science and Mathematic in English. I am torn between writing this in BM or in BI. Maybe I will use both. I was raised in English oriented Education. Most of what i write here is due to the need to speak to those who support PPSMI. But I also need to do rhetoric in Malay to reach out to the masses. Recently I attended a seminar in agriculture in a local university. The whole seminar was delivered and deliberated in Mandarin, except one in Japanese. To those who couldnt speak the languages were given live translation through headphones, distributed at the beginning of the seminar. And This is in Malaysia!! Why not. Boleh pun. We keep arguing our retardation of science in mathematics is due to our lack of mastery of English language. Back to the seminar. they talk about how the effort ...