Conflict and cancer research in Arizona

摘要

Your News Feature 'The Arizona experiment' (Nature 446,968-970; 2007) mentions that Robert Pettit "lost" directorship of the Cancer Research Institute at Arizona State University, as though he were an absent-minded professor who had just misplaced it. In fact, after disagreements with the university's president Michael Crow, Pettit was removed from the position and the institute was effectively closed down.