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Information, Communication, Knowledge

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At the British Association meeting in Exeter last month, Professor Ziman addressed the section devoted to general topics on the question of how scientific information becomes public knowledge. The system of communication, he implied, is not as rotten as some like to think.

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ZIMAN, J. Information, Communication, Knowledge. Nature 224, 318–324 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224318a0

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