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Jürgen Renn is incorrect in his assertion that scientists were secretive about their research and discoveries, since this is entirely antithetical to being a scientist who depends on skepticism and peer review to underpin the science: Alan H. Cromer, Unknown Science. For those who do proceed on the basis of secrecy, the probability of catastrophe is very high. Such science is the stuff of Hollywood legend, and, one would hope, is not the stuff of the Max Planck Institute or EU science.