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Culture, history and society

How should scientists deal with politicians who don’t respect science?

19 Feb 2025 Robert P Crease

The mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson once saw scientists as rebels, fighting other academics who don’t respect them. Robert P Crease says that scientists now have far more fearsome opponents

Freeman Dyson
Free spirit What would the ever-rebellious Freeman Dyson have made of today’s opponents of science? (Courtesy: Matin Durrani/IOP Publishing)
Three decades ago – in May 1995 – the British-born mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson publishe

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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