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US - no research assessment exercise - "Scoops Nobels" (News in brief, October 6); UK - RAE - no Nobels. Conclusion: continue to waste money, time and resources on a process that empirical evidence shows is counterproductive. Will no one admit that a disastrous mistake is continuing to be made?

R. J. Wootton
Llanbadarn Fawr