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NET RESULTS:LAST WEEK, an indignant letter writer to this paper took issue with a leader that called for science to "divest itself of its geeky image" to attract more students to science degrees, writes Karlin Lillington

"Has it never occurred to the powers that be that what we should be doing is encouraging people to revel in their geekiness?" argued letter writer Daniel Sullivan.