Does science need democracy to flourish?
Evidence shows good work can survive even the harshest regimes
To do good science, as everyone knows, you need to be able to think freely. That’s why the current research climate, with its pressure to publish and to chase grants and which leaves barely a moment to just stop and ruminate, is so troubling. But the constraints on intellectual liberty can be much tougher than that, as researchers in countries like Hungary and, one now fears, Brazil will tell you.