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PROF. A. V. HILL1, in discussing State aid for science, directs attention to “the danger that he who pays the piper may call the tune, that research may be devoted primarily to objects which the politician, or the Civil servant, regard for the moment as of national importance”, and demands that “the independence and integrity of science must be carefully safeguarded”. A casual reader might suppose that in Great Britain before the War, men of science could choose their own field of research.
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HALDANE, J. Can Science be Independent?. Nature 147, 416 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147416b0
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