COMPOSITE IMAGE AFP FILE PHOTOS MANILA, Philippines—When President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr., in his second State of the Nation Address, stressed on a program to lure Filipino scientists to return to the Philippines, a group of scientists and science advocates minced no words in its criticism. Advocates of Science and Technology for the People (Agham), a group of Filipino scientists and advocates, said the emphasis made in the second Sona on the program to bring back Filipino scientists illustrated a 'tactic of weaponizing half-truths by hiding behind relative and absolute numbers.

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