In the fifties, the vice president of the Rockefeller Institute declared: “Let me say here that the minute a director of a first-class research institute begins to direct research in that institute, he should be fired. If he is allowed to do it, and the workers in that institute accept such direction, they should be fired, because you can take it from me, they are not worth the salt they eat. It’s either one or the other, you just can’t go fooling around with the independence of research workers.”  Last week, I argued for a process for finding a solution…

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