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THE social aspects of scientific research, and the view that men of science should take a much more prominent part in spreading a scientific outlook and approach to social and other general problems of the community, have been eloquently urged in recent months. Despite these new opportunities and the greater disposition to listen to the contribution he can offer in these matters, the scientific worker often remains his own worst enemy. The lack of progress, for example, with all attempts to rationalise the publication and abstracting of scientific literature, or towards effective co-operation between scientific societies, continues to demonstrate an inability of the scientific worker to set his own house in order, if indeed it does not expose him to the charge of fiddling while Rome burns. Conservatism can be preserved from inertia and ineptitude only by wise judgment and the assimilation, not the rejection, of new ideas.
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Rationalisation of Scientific Publication. Nature 135, 357–358 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135357a0
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