Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?

Editor—The campaign to revitalise academic medicine may well demand radical thinking.1 Many expect or hope for a continuation of the long term expansion of medical research funding, but consider the fate of physics. Physics was once the richest, most self confident, and most prestigious science. The first half of the 20th century was a golden age for its science, the time after the second world …