"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
-- Benjamin Franklin
"It is not appropriate for political appointees to have judgment over scientific grant applications. Such veto power over research results in the stultification of science & national prosperity (e.g. Stalin's Soviet Union & Hitler's Germany). The USA should learn from history, not repeat it."
Holden Thorp is an institutionalist. He's been a university chancellor, provost, now EiC of Science. When institutionalists pull the fire alarm, we listen, because the call to action he issued this week exposes the dire nature of the threat we are facing. 1/
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