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- From: lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro)
- Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note
- Subject: Re: Author's Rights
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:24:44 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- References: <Dec.21.15.21.10.1992.3147@net.bio.net> <Dec.22.08.31.02.1992.708@net.bio.net> <92363.150041FORSDYKE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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- In article <92363.150041FORSDYKE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <FORSDYKE@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >
- > The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA [..]
- > The remedy would be simply for the academy to require that members
- > NOT submit papers from their own laboratories, or on behalf of those with whom
- > they have a personal relationship which might lead to bias.
- >
-
- I disagree. PNAS has served well through the years as a platform for
- timely and often controversial science, largely due to its publication
- rules. If someone is deserving of membership in the National Academy,
- they certainly can be trusted with editorial control over 24 pages a
- year in a respected journal. I view it as a collective platform for
- the scientific viewpoints of senior science, not as a traditional
- journal.
-