Word: publisher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard-hitting report that accused the scientific community of allowing the pressure to publish to make them too "tolerable of substandard practices," the Institute of Medicine offered some other suggestions for reducing the incentive for fraud. Among them: decreasing the emphasis on publications in promotion considerations and limiting the number of junior faculty members under any one professor...
Scientists should recognize that fraud does occur, and that the pressure to publish or perish is the primary cause. It would be in everyone's best interests for scientists to address the problem candidly, rather than ignore it or defensively deny that it exists. Scientists should waste no time in enacting new safeguards of their own, before Congress imposes the clumsy remedy of its choosing. After all, Congress has better things to do than to pick on Nobel laureates...
...recently as the 1970s, some delivery-room nurses covered the mirrors and draped towels in front of a woman giving up her child, or even blindfolded her, so she could not see the baby. In the nursery the infants were marked DNS (do not show) or DNP (do not publish the mother's name). Says Rappaport: "Adoption was considered a really sick process...
Taught by Assistant Professor of Anthropology David W. Rudner, the course will study the kind of beer that undergraduates drink, the kind of clothing they wear and the way they make and keep friends. Not only that, Rudner says the 15-20 students enrolled will publish their findings in a study of college culture...
...been filched from subscribers' desks. Anthony Hartley, editor of Britain's prestigious monthly Encounter, adds his voice to the debate in the September issue. Translations of Fukuyama's article, titled "The End of History?," will soon appear in Japanese, Italian and Dutch journals. The French quarterly Commentaire will also publish a translation, along with critiques by leading intellectuals such as Jean-Francois Revel. The National Interest, which accompanied Fukuyama's article with responses by such pundits as Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) and New York's Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, will print two more lengthy reactions...