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Old 02-02-2008, 04:50 PM   #24 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Baron von Lotsov View Post
This is why scientists talk to one another....
Some do but I suspect they mostly don't.
A scientist working on a new product for say, Glaxo Kline French is hardly likely to be working in co-operation with a compititor from Merck.

At an entirely different level I, and a few others in my field, have a get together once every couple of months. We are good friends of long standing.
For sure, we do business together to mutual advantage. And sometimes we are in competition.
We all know what is prudent to disclose.

Arnold Weinstock might have had a different view.
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