From Tony Stace
Lewes, East Sussex
Has anyone else noticed how English cricket has become a metaphor for
British science? In cricket, we take gifted amateurs, pay them a pittance,
provide them with minimal training facilities, give them almost no moral support
and then expect them to take on the world.
Parallels with the treatment of science and scientists in British
universities are remarkable and, in both cases, I fear the end result will be
the same—relegation to the second division.
