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Nature Medicine 10, 319 (2004)
doi:10.1038/nm0404-319a
French researchers face winter of discontent
Peter Vermij1
- Amsterdam
Entering a power struggle with their national government, more than 2,000 senior French researchers resigned from their managerial duties on 9 March, protesting the "planned destruction of France's research capacity." The revolt proceeded in spite of last-minute conciliatory attempts by the president of the Academy of Sciences, and pleas from Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin not to "weaken the country's international scientific reputation.
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