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Dept of Business now in control of UK science

By sciencepunk on June 9, 2009.

I'm in the Guardian again, talking about the Government's decision to scrap the two-year old Department for Innovation, Universities, and Skills in favour of incorporating these duties into the Department for Business. Science is in a vulnerable position at the moment:

As the dust settles following Gordon Brown's cabinet shuffle on Friday, it's clear that the landscape of British science has been transformed. Where the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills once stood, now only a vacant lot and several skips filled with DIUS-branded stationery remain. If the forwarding address is oddly familiar - 1 Victoria Street - it's because this was the home of the Department for Trade and Industry, from whose malign influence the science escaped just two years ago.

Link to full text: This government views science simply as a tool for generating profit

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