Top Polish academic sees threat in plan for new state body
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) Poland s top academic has expressed concern at government plans to form a new major state scientific institution, amid fears that the move might threaten academic independence by strengthening political control over research.
The governing right-wing Law and Justice party has already controversially increased control over Poland s judiciary and media since it came to power more than five years ago.
Jerzy Duszynski, the head of the Polish Academy of Sciences, wrote in a letter this week to heads of institutes under the academy s umbrella that he feels the academy is threatened.
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