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| Genre/Form: | Popular Works |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Donald R Forsdyke |
| ISBN: | 9789057026034 9057026031 |
| OCLC Number: | 47522115 |
| Description: | xviii, 168 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Machine generated contents note: Prefaceix -- Acknowledgmentsxv -- About the Authorxvii -- 1 The Credulity of Kings: How Research Is Marketed1 -- 2 The Slaughter of the Innocents: Diphtheria9 -- 3 On Giraffes and Peer Review: How We Got into this Mess17 -- 4 The Origins of the Clonal Selection Theory of Immunity: -- A Case Study for Evaluation in Science25 -- 5 Huxley and the Philosopher's Wife: Another Case History in Evaluation in Science35 -- 6 Alas, We Are No Longer at School! Teacher Review and Peer Review Are Different55 -- 7 Damage-Limitation or Superelitism? The Case for a Sliding Scale of Funding65 -- 8 Promise or Performance as the Basis for Distribution of Research Funds71 -- 9 A Systems Analyst with AIDS asks about the Research Funding System83 -- 10 How a Systems Analyst with AIDS would Reform Research Funding91 -- 11 Not Cricket99 -- 12 Pavlovian Effects111 -- 13 Partnership with the Drug Industry?123 -- 14 Prospects for Reform?131 -- References139 -- Index157. |
| Responsibility: | Donald R. Forsdyke. |
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