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Correspondence
Nature 422, 801-802 (24 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422801c
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Correspondence to: John P. Walsh1,2 Email: walsh@aee.u-tokyo.ac.jp.
Various authors and reports have recently claimed (for example, refs 1–3) that the increasing commercialization of academic science has led to an increase in secrecy. However, our comparison of two surveys of experimental biologists, mathematicians and physicists, conducted about 30 years apart, suggests a more complicated and interesting picture.
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