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This article examines the membership, operations and purposes of the Council for Scientific Policy (CSP) and offers some interim conclusions about the outcome of the CSP experiment. It was written while the CSP was still in existence.
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GUMMETT, P., WILLIAMS, R. Assessing the Council for Scientific Policy. Nature 240, 329–332 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/240329a0
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