A scientist's obligations, Robert Pollack
Interviewee: Bob Pollack. Robert Pollack talks about a scientist's obligations.
As the precipitator of it I consider it to have been a major event in my scientific career in an indirect way, it doesn't appear in any of my publications, but it, it created for me an immediate sense of the value of being outside the hierarchical stack and in taking seriously the idea that a scientist is obligated to look at all the data and draw his or her own conclusions and stand up for them.
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