Posted here Monday, February 23, 2004 at 1:50:18 PM 
Worthe the read, showing mor the cannibalism of capital.
The Dawn of McScience
By Richard Horton
In Science in the Private Interest, a strongly argued polemic against the commercial conditions in which scientific research currently operates, Sheldon Krimsky shows how universities have become little more than instruments of wealth. Universities have sacrificed their larger social responsibilities to accommodate a new purpose—the privatization of knowledge—by engaging in multimillion-dollar contracts with industries that demand the rights to negotiate licenses from any subsequent discovery. Science has long been ripe for industrial colonization. The traditional norms of disinterested inquiry and free expression of opinion have been given up in order to harvest new and much-needed revenues.
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