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Nurse wants elite UK science focus

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Incoming head of Royal Society sets out his agenda.

Less than 24 hours after being nominated as the new president of the Royal Society — Britain's national academy of science — Paul Nurse had already kicked off a controversy. In an interview published on 27 April in the British newspaper The Times, he argued for a more elitist approach to the funding of science. "You need a combination of special systems that attract and support those who are excellent," he said, "and rigorous reviews so that when they cease to be excellent, as many often are, they don't just hang on to those resources."

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