It's too soon to call the economic crisis a depression, but it's not too early to learn an important lesson from the Great Depression: science is more important than ever.
....................."The New Deal established a new era in government-science relations," writes Stanford University historian Eric Rauchway in an essay published Wednesday in Nature. "The 1930s brought unparalleled technological progress to the nation."'The New Deal didn't just aim at recovery. It was aimed at reforming the society,' said Rauchway. 'You ended up with a different-looking country, a country better equipped to face the 20th century.'"
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