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Nature 437, 192 (8 September 2005) | doi:10.1038/437192a; Published online 7 September 2005

Cuban science democratic and not tied to profit

Catherine Badgley1 & Ivette Perfecto2

  1. Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  2. School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

We question the comparison made in your News Feature "¿Vive la revolución?" (Nature 436, 322–324; 2005) between Cuban government-funded science and a corporate research programme using a top-down approach that focuses on applied science at the expense of basic research.

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