Bill Hooker starts with a quote from a political blog about corporate America and discusses competition in science:
http://3quarksdaily.blogs.com/3quarksdaily/2007/07/competition-in-.html
The post has several links to misconduct in science including a special issue of Nature this year. The article ends with a quote from Brian Martinson "Competition and privatization are the great American way, but we've not stopped to ask ourselves whether we may have engendered a level of competition in science that has some dysfunctional consequences."
Seed magazine discusses Ioannidis' essay entitled "Why most published research findings are false":
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/05/dirty_little_secret.php
For those with statistics background the aricle 'The most dangerous equation in the world" by Howard Wainer may be of interest: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~hwainer/2007-05Wainer_rev.pdf
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Dear Swarup,
In his obligatory readings of the day, Coturnix collects four blog posts on the question of competition versus cooperation in science, which might interest you.
Guru
Guru,
Thanks. I do not like competetion, but it is possibly natural and has been as much an integral part of the discovery process as any other motive. The problems arise when some generally accepted norms are not maitained.
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