Science has always been political

This month marks the 75th anniversary of Vannevar Bush’s paper, “Science—The Endless Frontier.” The report set out the rationale and structure of a system to fund science in the United States; it is the Magna Carta of American science. Science published a summary of Bush’s paper on the same day it was submitted to President Harry Truman, and Bush’s close relationship with the magazine is evident…

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