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Time for scientists to pay their dues

On the eve of the announcement by the British government of its plan to reorganize the country's scientific enterprise, how should scientists see themselves in relation to the world in which they live?

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Rees, D. Time for scientists to pay their dues. Nature 363, 203–204 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/363203a0

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