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THE following resolution was adopted at a meeting held on December 31 by the American Society of Naturalists during the recent Atlantic City meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: “The American Society of Naturalists observes with regret an increasing tendency in certain parts of the world to require of investigators the conformity of their research to officially prescribed doctrines. This society wishes to emphasize that intellectual progress is compatible only with perfect freedom in the conduct of investigation and in the announcement both of results and of conclusions based upon those results. Attention is called also to the fact that the scientific world can place no reliance upon reports of research carried on under conditions which limit its freedom by an enforced agreement with any preconceived views or dogmas.”
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Scientific Freedom. Nature 139, 185 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139185b0
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