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Morals and manners in modern science

Nature volume 457, pages 662–663 (2009)Cite this article

Today's research enterprise is often portrayed as impersonal and calculating, but a historical examination argues that scientists' civility to each other is what holds the venture together. Jerome Ravetz explains.

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  1. Jerome Ravetz is associate fellow at the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at the University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 1HP, UK. He is author of Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems. jerome-ravetz@tiscali.co.uk ,

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Ravetz, J. Morals and manners in modern science. Nature 457, 662–663 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/457662a

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