Despite stupendous advances in the past 50 years, Western governments' support of research for its own sake is on the wane. The new year is an appropriate time for researchers and policy-makers to consider the implications and make some resolutions.
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Pure science in an age of attrition. Nature 379, 1 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/379001a0
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