Abstract
Although there is a traditional view that the chief duty of scientists is to the scientific community, their employment by government, industry or even universities may frequently impose other loyalties. At a symposium held on September 7, 1971, at the annual meeting in Swansea of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, an attempt was made to help to define the line that must be drawn between one loyalty and another. This article brings together the contributions to the symposium by Dr K. Mellanby, Mr Terence Price and Dr J. R. Ravetz.
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MELLANBY, K., PRICE, T. & RAVETZ, J. Conflicts of Loyalty in Science. Nature 234, 17–21 (1971). https://doi.org/10.1038/234017a0
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