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https://policyoptions.irpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Derek-Besant-Still-from-Migration-Cell-Theory.png570930It was following the scientific conflagration that brought the Second World War to an end that, as the physicist Joseph Rush observed, science became politically interesting, and scientists became interested in politics. The traditional role of the lab-coated, disinterested scientist, cloistered in the laboratory, no longer held sway. Scientists became public actors. And many began […]