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In complement to the Nature's article: The FNS/SNF (Swiss national science foundation) explains on its website the reason for not signing it (yet): http://www.snf.ch/en/researchinFocus/newsroom/Pages/news-180...

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"We have a different plan and we're sticking to it" is not much of an explanation.

(I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it.)

To be fair, it's more like "we committed ourselves to a different plan to other stakeholders, and we're sticking to it until we have convened with those stakeholders whether they're OK with us joining this plan".

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