I wonder what Mr Cummings makes of the lack of enthusiasm for Brexit in the scientific community? A letter to Jean-Claude Juncker dated 19 October 2018, signed by 29 Nobel laureates and six Fields medallists, states: “Creating new barriers to such ease of collaboration will inhibit progress, to the detriment of us all. Many of us in the science community therefore regret the UK’s decision to leave the European Union.”
A 2018 survey of staff and scientists at the Francis Crick Institute, the UK’s largest biomedical research laboratory, reported that only 3 per cent felt that the concerns of the scientific community were being listened to.
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