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The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Borders Between Russia's Science and State Secrets
The way that science is conducted though internationally is that scientists will go to other countries, they will share information. Even in World War II we had physicists collaborating and writing between Germany, America, the UK for example because science was going on despite war. That's how we do science. It's called peer review. So is there a sort of blurring of the boundaries here between what they're doing as legitimate science and what they'redoing in terms of giving away state secrets? And is that the bone of contention? Really what this is is a clash between two cultures. You have the scientific culture in Russia absolutely as everywhere else is not just interested in peer review and cooperation but precisely also does
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