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THE Conference on Science and the Citizen which was arranged last March by the Division for the Social and International Relations of Science of the British Association (NATURE ; April 3, p. 382) was, as Mr. J. G. Crowther observed, the first in Great Britain to be devoted entirely to the consideration of the means which can be used to increase the public understanding and appreciation of science and the methods of improving them. The Press can exert a most powerful influence in this matter, and appropriately a whole session of the Conference was devoted to a discussion on science and the Press. Unless effective relations can be established in that field, the general appreciation, not only of the powers but also of the limitations of scientific research, which Sir John Anderson stressed as vital for the effective contribution of organized Government research, industrial research organizations and academic and private research institutions to the solution of post-war problems, can scarcely be achieved.
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SCIENCE AND THE PRESS. Nature 151, 595–597 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151595a0
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