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Nature 438, 264-265 (17 November 2005) | doi:10.1038/438264b; Published online 16 November 2005
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Kendall Powell
The time and money spent attending small scientific meetings is more than paid back through accelerated research, suggests a survey by a conference organizer."The presumption is that meetings are beneficial, but the actual data to say that something positive happens are pretty scarce," says James Aiken, president of Keystone Symposia, the non-profit meetings organization in Silverthorne, Colorado, that carried out the survey.
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