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Comment on the editorial ‘The secret ways of scientists’ in EMBO reports , December 2000

Wolfgang Hennig

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Corruptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectPolitical sciencePatents as TopicGeneticsConflict of interestConfidentialitySocial value orientationsMolecular BiologyBiochemistryDrug industrymedia_commonLaw and economics

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I read ‘The secret ways of scientists’ with much interest and in principle I closely share the view expressed there. However, I am rather suspicious that such a view no longer reflects the truth. It appears to me that the tendency among scientists to start their own biotech companies may lead to a corruption of values and create a rather strange mixture of attitudes. The editorial states that ‘our …

https://doi.org/10.1093/embo-reports/kve031