Abstract
Does basic science need a new contract with government? If so, what form should it take? These were the main questions the captains and kings of science grappled with for two days at a Sigma Xi forum earlier this month in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The gathering marked the 50th anniversary of Vannevar Bush's seminal report, Science: The Endless Frontier. This is the report that established the rationale for government-sponsored basic research in this country. It was the foundation stone for what has been described as the post-World War II golden age of American science. During the war, Bush was the closest the U.S. has ever come to having a science czar. The Sigma Xi forum comes at a time of great change for the basic research community-mostly for the worse. The public is far less trustful of science than it once was. It is even fearful and disillusioned. Science is no longer as attractive ...
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