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Prospects for a cosmopolitan right to scientific progress

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Declaring a cosmopolitan right to scientific progress risks perpetuating the inequities it aims to overcome. Instead, science ought to be reimagined in a way that directly addresses its links to nationalist projects and harmful capitalist practices.

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Fig. 1: Andersen’s ‘Tower of Progress’.

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Sample, M., Cheema, I. Prospects for a cosmopolitan right to scientific progress. Nat. Phys. 18, 1133–1135 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-022-01771-0

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