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120. Joseph Priestley’s imaginative political justification for the pursuit of pure science.

120. Joseph Priestley’s imaginative political justification for the pursuit of pure science.

by Len Fisher | 6 Sep 2016 | Mini Stories from Science, News

A great deal of nonsense is currently being spouted by people who believe that the days of unfettered “fundamental,” “pure,” “blue-sky” research are over – or, at least, that they ought to be, and that scientists should come out into the “real world,” whatever that...

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