So They Say

Excerpts from American and European media on the conduct of science. CONTENTS Show Some Muscle With Friends Like That What's In a Name? Looking to the Stars Zinos, Winos and Reality Plank's Other Law High Hopes Congress Knows Best Setting Up Shop in Space Show Some Muscle Too many universities in Britain are over-spending their over-modest budgets in ways that put them in hock to the University Grants Committee and even, on some occasions, the commercial banks; no

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Excerpts from American and European media on the conduct of science.

CONTENTS

Show Some Muscle

With Friends Like That

What's In a Name?

Looking to the Stars

Zinos, Winos and Reality

Plank's Other Law

High Hopes

Congress Knows Best

Setting Up Shop in Space

Many people believe-as once was said about war and generals- that science is too important to be left to the scientists. To whose care, then, shall the future of science be entrusted? We scientists ourselves must become more involved in determining how science will serve society and how society will influence the progress of science.

If education is the nutrient for a healthy science, freedom is the oxygen science must breathe. But those outside the discipline who place the highest economic and military value on science are just the ones most likely to place limitations on the movements of scientists and scientific ideas. Thus it is ...

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