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April 9, 2013
How Thatcher The Chemist Helped Make Thatcher The Politician
"It was precisely because Thatcher knew what scientific research was like
that made her impervious to claims that science was a special case, with special features and incapable of being understood by outsiders, and therefore that science policy should be left in the hands of scientists. Such a strategy of persuasion and protection might have considerable purchase on a science minister with no direct experience of the working life of a scientist, but not Thatcher." -- Popular Science
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 9, 2013 5:34 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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And (IIRC) Dixie Lee Ray went all Babe Ruth for the bleachers on Alar.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at April 9, 2013 5:44 PM