Does the "professional veracity of scientists allow no compromises"?

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Jakob Bronowski once stated that for scientists "nothing matters as much as the pursuit of the truth" Is that a hopelessly naive sentiment in a world of both commercial and 'political' science?

Barry Turner

Ian

Nice answer, You ought to express this view on the mathematics thread "Is Mathematics a human contrivance or is it innate to nature" Your insight is certainly needed there.

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