The relationship between science and the people in whose name it is done has changed dramatically over the past 50 years. Bernard Dixon, who edited Â鶹´«Ã½ during some of the most turbulent of them, looks back and discovers that something important has been left out of the mix.
ALL countries have a (mostly unwritten) contract with science. To greater or lesser degrees, governments fund it, call upon it in times of national emergency, berate it for not delivering when tiger economies seem to be edging ahead, and shower it with praise when genomes are cracked or stem cells grown…
