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much reduced by the multipHcity of journals, research centers, and 

 sources of support. In another respect, however, the threat is intensi- 

 fied: unfit ideas may well be "forced" to a false appearance of via- 

 bility in the hothouse atmosphere of tlie great modern research fac- 

 tory headed by a crafty administrator, accomplished fund-raiser, and 

 shrewd purchaser of others' talents. 



