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Science, Common Sense and Decency

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MR. A. J. BATEMAN'S. comments1 on Dr. I. Langmuir's ideas call in their turn for comment from the point of view of a physicist.

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DENNE, E. Science, Common Sense and Decency. Nature 151, 589 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151589b0

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