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—Victorian-era novelist Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
—Bill Gates, 2011 annual letter, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
—University of Sussex behavioral ecologist Timothy Roper, in a letter published in Nature (Mar. 17, 2011)
—Science historian Horace Freeland Judson, who died last month (May 2011), in his 2004 book The Great Betrayal: Fraud in Science
—University of Wisconsin–Madison molecular biologist Marvin Wickens, quoted in a 2009 PLoS Biology perspective piece on funding science authored by developmental biologist Peter Lawrence
—Evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin, in a review of Evelyn Fox Keller’s new book The Mirage of Space Between Nature and Nurture (The New York Review of Books, May 26, 2011)
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