January 22, 1999

Can Corporate Support for Research Coexist With Academic Freedom?

To the Editor:

The article on the University of California at Berkeley's research agreement with the Novartis Agricultural Discovery Institute is surprising ("Berkeley Pact With a Swiss Company Takes Technology Transfer to a New Level," December 11). It is surprising not so much because of its attempt to manufacture controversy, but because of the people from whom Goldie Blumenstyk chose to elicit criticism.

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