120791 external_news 1333043998 1475893532 "That is one reason to be sceptical of the common claim ...that science can flourish only in a free society. Historians of science in Nazi Germany such as Kristie Macrakis (in her book Surviving the Swastika) have challenged this assertion, which is not made true simply because we would like it to be so. Authoritarian regimes are perfectly capable of putting pragmatism before ideology." Macrakis is professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society. Source: Nature - March 7, 2012

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