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We should do less staged science and more science on stage, suggests Michelle Francl.

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  1. Michelle Francl is in the Department of Chemistry at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 19010-2899, USA. mfrancl@brynmawr.edu,

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