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Correspondence
Nature 448, 408 (26 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448408a; Published online 25 July 2007
Nobel laureates know what they're talking about
Burton Richter1
- Stanford University, SLAC MS 80, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
Your Editorial 'Nobels in dubious causes' (Nature 447, 354; 2007) urges scientists and Nobel laureates to "campaign only where they can truly make a difference". I think you mean that we should use our fleeting fame only in causes that we know something about.
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