[Independent-UK] Arifa Akbar - More than 100 academics including some of the UK's most senior scientists have written a letter in response to "pernicious" calls for London's Science Museum to cancel its Israel Science Day event to be held Thursday. The letter accused those campaigning against the event of "preventing British schoolchildren from being inspired by scientific discovery and innovation." "Science crosses borders, builds bridges and transcends national and political divides. It can unite people but the protesters seek only to divide and exclude. At a time of high community tensions, these boycotts are especially pernicious."
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