The Royal Society and the Rothschild ‘Controversy’
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Presenter: Neil Calver
Published: February 2013
Age: 14-19 and upwards
Views: 1133 views
Tags: royal;society;government;funding
Type: Lectures
Source/institution: Royal Society
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In the early months of 1971 the Heath government asked Lord Victor Rothschild to Ôthink the unthinkableÕ in his investigation into government policy. His subsequent report on research funding proposed something the Royal Society judged to be wholly unreasonable: that politicians were better suited to control the funding and direction of applied research than the scientists undertaking it.
