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THE article on ” War, Science and Citizenship” in NATURE of May 9, and the letter on ” Scientific Workers and War” published in the following week have expressed views no doubt widely held among readers of NATURE. Neither, however, gives any adequate suggestion as to how those scientific workers who hold such views can make them effective. Any steps depending on collective action through existing scientific organizations are obviously impracticable at the moment, for on the question of war, as on any other question of public policy, there are as wide differences of opinion among scientists as among the rest of the population. No existing organization of scientists, therefore, could at present make any pronouncement, apart from a purely platitudinous one, without serious loss of membership and of effectiveness in other directions.
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BARROW, E., DONEN, J., DU TOIT, C. et al. Scientific Workers and War. Nature 138, 80 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138080a0
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