POLISH science is facing ‘not a crisis but a cataclysm’, according to
Robert Glebocki, the head of Solidarity’s All-Poland Coordinating Commission
for Science. Spending on science is due to rise by 183 per cent this year,
but inflation means that this will represent a cut by almost a half in real
terms. There is no money for publishing scientific periodicals, and as a
result of reorganisation, there is a threat of the ‘chaotic self-liquidation’
of many research groups and institutes.
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