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THE desirability of promoting a more intelligent and more intelligible consideration of scientific work and thought in the public Press has often been urged in these columns; and there are signs of increased attention to this need both from newspaper editors and from scientific workers. This is due to several causes. The public expenditure upon scientific research is now large. Government departments which spend money on research, and scientific workers who are supported by public money, feel that the public should understand the value of the work it is supporting. This motive of social self-justification penetrates far more extensively than is generally realized. The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the University Grants Committee provide funds which assist a large fraction of all the scientific research at present done in Great Britain.
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Science in the Public Press. Nature 138, 93–094 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138093a0
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