Industry: speak up to stop its pressure on academia
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Buckley, R
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2006
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SIR — Your News Feature “Caught between shores” (Nature 440, 144–145; 2006) suggests that scientists in industry sacrifice independence for influence. So do scientists in government. It’s a classic insider/outsider dilemma. As a former chief environmental scientist for Australian Mineral Development Laboratories, I’ve tried both sides. But companies and governments make no claim to put truth before profit or politics. Universities do.SIR — Your News Feature “Caught between shores” (Nature 440, 144–145; 2006) suggests that scientists in industry sacrifice independence for influence. So do scientists in government. It’s a classic insider/outsider dilemma. As a former chief environmental scientist for Australian Mineral Development Laboratories, I’ve tried both sides. But companies and governments make no claim to put truth before profit or politics. Universities do.
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Nature
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440
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7086
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