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As a man in the street with no claim to be a scientist I read with interest the report in NATURE of April 3 of the conference convened by the British Association to consider ways and means for increasing public appreciation and understanding of science. The impression I gain from this and similar discussions is of a disposition to blame various forces extraneous to the scientific community for the failure of science to exert upon the public mind the influence which it should. So far as Great Britain is concerned, however, I suggest that a chief responsibility for the frustration of science, so far as it is determined by public ignorance, rests primarily on scientific men themselves.
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BREWER, H. Public Appreciation of Science. Nature 151, 534 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151534a0
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