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Daily Archives: November 16, 2011
In praise of Mr. Goodyear
The early days of Gary Goodyear as Minister of State for Science and Technology were on the rocky side. A well publicized stormy meeting with a CAUT delegation, and a reported attempt to intervene in a peer-review process may have been lapses in … Continue reading
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