Practice imperfect
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The intense media coverage that surrounded the publication of research revealing the risks of breast cancer associated with hormone replacement therapy and the subsequent complaints from the National Health Service and doctors that they should have received advance warning about the publication of the findings has raised questions about the best way for scientific results to be made public. The Royal Society has launched a probe into this issue and Sir Patrick Bateson will chair the working group on best practice in the communication of the results of new scientific research to the public.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Crusaders for a truly free flow of ideas
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An analysis of efforts being made within the scientific community to change the way in which research results are made available. At present, researchers make their work available to publishers for nothing, only for those publishers to then charge to pass it on. While it is acknowledged that the publishers "add value" to the research with additional work that they put it, it is questioned whether they add as much value as they think and efforts are being made to change the availability of research results into a more open access system.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2004
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Bring a comfy chair to the lab in your search for inspiration
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Issues relating to the contention that while the armchair is an ideal place for the mind to engage in idle fancy and develop hypotheses, and the laboratory bench can be the graveyard of creativity, the combination of the two can result in spectacular discoveries. It is argued that armchairs are fine incubators of fantasies, but these fantasies only take wing and fly towards reliable understanding when they are confronted by the rigorous analysis required by the laboratory bench.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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