Abstract
At no time does the scientific investigator state his own opinion of what ought to be, or of what is right and what is wrong. His own biases and preferences do not enter the picture. ... In the final analysis it is administrators, not scientists, who determine policy — as sev eral American atomic physicists have belatedly discovered. The scientist's job is to analyze, to explain, and to increase the store of knowledge. His job should not be confused with the wielding of political and economic power, power which he does not possess.*
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