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." Agham said the lack of factual basis for some of Marcos Jr's statements was an attempt to mask government "deficiencies ...Keep on reading: ‘Balik Scientist’: It’s gov’t fault they left in the first place