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Nature 405, 116 (11 May 2000) | doi:10.1038/35012167

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How to make diplomats scientifically literate

Peter Cohen1

  1. The Herbarium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

I read with great interest the Opinion article (Nature 404, 1; 2000) concerning attempts by the US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, to produce a scientifically literate State Department. Such attempts will, of course, fail in the end, since the approach being taken by Albright and State Department officials is at best inconsequential, and at worst, perverse.