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To the Editor: Rosenberg (Feb. 8 issue)¹ laments the increasing secrecy about methods and results in medical research. But if researchers are interested only in the search for truth, there is no reason for concealment in any kind of research, whether it is in medicine, mathematics, or any other field. There will always be a balance in research between the cooperative and the competitive drives; current political ideology and lack of money favor the competitive.

In the competition for funds, medical research has an advantage over many other fields in claiming that its goal is, to quote Rosenberg, "to prevent . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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