"The desire for academic advancement, perversely, can also impede bench-to-bedside research... The incentive is to publish and secure grants instead of to create better treatments and cures. And what do top journals want? Fascinating new scientific knowledge, not mundane treatment discoveries..."
Thursday, July 2, 2009
A downside of academic journals
Interesting article in Newsweek "From Bench to Bedside - Academia slows the search for cures"
"The desire for academic advancement, perversely, can also impede bench-to-bedside research... The incentive is to publish and secure grants instead of to create better treatments and cures. And what do top journals want? Fascinating new scientific knowledge, not mundane treatment discoveries..."
"The desire for academic advancement, perversely, can also impede bench-to-bedside research... The incentive is to publish and secure grants instead of to create better treatments and cures. And what do top journals want? Fascinating new scientific knowledge, not mundane treatment discoveries..."
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