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Correspondence
Nature 453, 27 (1 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453027c; Published online 30 April 2008
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The status of science in Muslim nations
K. Razi Naqvi1
- Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
The decision made by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, that only countries committed to donating funds will be allowed to join its standing committee on science and technology, is laudable and newsworthy. However, it hardly justifies the News in Brief headline 'Muslim nations raise status of science' (Nature 452, 517; 2008).
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