Value-judgements about the need for more ‘goal-directed’ or ‘basic’ scientific research beg the question of how the publicly funded scientific enterprise works. An efficient management would start to put things right.
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Fox, C. If it ain't fixed, don't break it .... Nature 369, 602 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/369602a0
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