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- From: swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Ideology and Indoctrination
- Message-ID: <1806@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 19:39:53 GMT
- References: <1k0tpu$5mp@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan25.152051@IASTATE.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan25.152051@IASTATE.EDU>, danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A Ashlock) writes:
- |>
- |> Agreed. The government has abdicated it's responsability to finance basic
- |> research and a lot of corrupting money is coming into science in the form of
- |> corporate sposorship or research done by stockholding scientists. It give more
- |> motives to be dishonest.
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- Another unfortunate source of temptation is the 'publish or perish' method
- of evaluating job performance used by many university administrators.
- This leads, at the very least, to an excess of mediocre, or downright
- shoddy, pieces being published to fill out the quota. And it can easily
- be the final straw that pushes someone into fabricating results to publish.
-
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