Strategic Science in the Public Interest: Canada’s Government Laboratories and Science-Based Agencies. By G. Bruce Doern and Jeffrey S. Kinder. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. xiii + 235 p., ill., bibl., tab., index. isbn 0-8020-8853-8 50$)

ترجمه و نقد کتاب the justification of science and the rationality of religious belife

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In the press: Science and Public Policy

We advocate a scientometric, top-down, and institution-based research assessment methodology that is based on total citations accumulated from all publications associated-with a specific university during the survey period. The exercise could be done every year using a rolling 7 year retrospective sample and should be performed by at least two independent auditors. Identification of elite ‘revo...

Reporting Science and Conflicts of Interest in the Lay Press

BACKGROUND Forthright reporting of financial ties and conflicts of interest of researchers is associated with public trust in and esteem for the scientific enterprise. METHODS/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We searched Lexis/Nexis Academic News for the top news stories in science published in 2004 and 2005. We conducted a content analysis of 1152 newspaper stories. Funders of the research were identified...

The Toronto Academic Health Science Council Management Practice Atlas.

science, education and the world’s future; by prof. bruce alberts

dr. bruce alberts, editor-in-chief of science magazine, and professor emeritus at the university of california, san francisco (ucsf), presented a popular and thought-provoking talk to the participants of the global young academy general assembly in pretoria, south africa, on may 21 2012. professor alberts has kindly agreed to the publication of some of the ideas he addressed in the future of me...