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June 26, 196)

Dear Professor Lederberg:

Thank you very much for sending me a reprint of
your paper, "A Crisis in Evolution." The message is an
impressive one. As a social scientist, I am pleased to
see a biological scientist sounding an alarm to his
colleagues--advising them that they must ready them-
selves for a day when their judgments will go into the
making of social decisions for man.

One of the things that disturbs me--which I intend
covering in the final chapter of my forthcoming book--

is that too many scientists, influenced by the dictates i
of grantsmanship, have learned to confuse ends and means. a,
If this is actually so, I fear that they may thereby a
detract fran their ow effectiveness. =

If you should publish any additional papers bearing A
on the theme of "A Crisis in Evolution," I would be ph

pleased to see them. Hopefully, however, I must finish
my book by the end of July. If you should be interested
in seeing the final chapter, in which I take up a number
of emerging problems growing out of the current bio-
medical revolution, I would be glad to send it to you.

Sincerely,

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Professor Joshua Lederberg, Director

Kennedy Laboratories for Molecular Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Palo Alto, California

  

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