J.D Benal (1954) taken here from the 1969 (third edition) Pelican publication (pages 33-34):
‘In fact at all times the individual scientist has needed to work in close connection with three other groups of persons: his patrons, his colleagues and his public. The function of the patron, whether a wealthy individual, university, corporation, or a department of State, is to provide the money on which the scientist must live and which will enable him to carry on his work. The patron will in turn want to have something to say on what is actually done, especially if his ultimate object is commercial advantage or military success. It will apparently be less so only if he is operating from pure benevolence. Or in the pursuit of prestige or advertisement; then he will only want results to be sufficiently spectacular and not too disturbing.In a Socialist society the function of the patron is taken over by the organs of popular government, at all levels, for the factory or farm laboratory to the academy institute, and is radically changed in the process. Because such a government can, and indeed necessarily must, take a long-term view….’
On which point, I have an email safely archived from the Press Office of my old university, Nottingham Trent University (NTU), informing me that a dean has insisted my prestigiously fully funded (by the UK National Lottery Heritage Fund) trip to disseminate my published and expert peer reviewed research findings on Darwin's plagiarism of Patrick Matthew's theory remove any mention of NTU from a Scottish press release on the matter.
This is how disruptive new breakthroughs are supressed by the zombie horde of anti-academic vacuous - managerialist gimp - dullards.
