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Nature 420, 121 (14 November 2002) | doi:10.1038/420121c

Liberal world of science

Geraint Day1

  1. Policy Unit, Institute of Directors, 116 Pall Mall, London SW1Y 5ED, UK

Raymond Pierotti's Correspondence expressing his opinion (Nature 419, 667; 200210.1038/419667a) that academic scandals are less well known than business ones reminded me of Michael Faraday's description of his "desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal".