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...symptoms and arrive at different conclusions. Most medical decisions are educated guesswork; nevertheless, the computers are already functioning well. A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association states that one SUMEX program performed at a level comparable to that of five medical experts at Stanford. William Baker, NIH administrator for the SUMEX project, says that a computer system at the University of Pittsburgh called CADUCEUS is so sophisticated that it "would be a board-certified internist if it were human." Pittsburgh researchers administered one part of an internal-medicine board exam to "Dr. CADUCEUS." It passed...
Darsee had received an annual $14,000 salary and a $2000 allowance for lab and equipment costs as part of a three year, post-graduate fellowship from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was completing the second year of the fellowship when the data fabrications were discovered...
...Normally [Darsee's fellowship] would have been renewed automatically," Dr. Jerome G. Green, chairman of the NIH department that granted the fellowship, said this week. He added that BWH officials requested in June that the grant be revoked...
...universe. Isaac Newton, the father of classical physics, and the saintly monk Gregor Mendel, who founded genetics, were apparently not above fudging some of their specific data to fit a generally true theory. Defenders of present scientific procedures say the only change has been psychological: what Dr. William Raub, NIH's associate director for grants and contracts, dismisses as "a heightened consciousness and a willingness to talk" about cheating. Other observers sharply disagree. Says University of Chicago Philosopher Stephen Toulmin: "You can't change something into a highly paid, highly competitive, highly structured activity without creating occasions...
There is no doubt about the increase in pressure on researchers to produce spectacular results, especially at a time when there is a squeeze on funds for research. As Raub notes, today only 30% of the applicants for NIH grants get them, compared with up to 70% in the 1950s. Senior scientists are often so busy scram bling for funds to keep their large labs running that they rarely have the time to look as closely at what their young whizzes are doing as they would like. What was once a sportsmanlike rivalry between researchers has become cutthroat competition...