khatib tabrizi is a famous scholar from fifth hijry century. he has been named with positive and negative characteristics. this article studies and judges the things he has been accused of or appraised for. also his scientific status and historian views about him and his role in literature are discussed in the present article.

i was glancing at the proceedings of the 3rd national meeting of iranian association of medical editors of december 2010, few points took my attention worth mentioning. of the 173 medical science journals of iran only 54 are registered in the scopus database.1   at this gathering all the talks had been focused on the improvement of the quality and impact factors (if) which is the score that the...

Distrust in scientific experts can be surprisingly stubborn, persisting despite evidence supporting the experts’ views, demonstrations of their competence, or displays good will. This stubborn distrust is often viewed as a manifestation irrationality. By contrast, this article proposes logic “status distrust”: low-status individuals are objectively vulnerable to collective decision-making, and ...