Restoring good manners in research
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Scientific journals have to remove the bad manners seen in many research papers. Many scientist resort to self-advertisement and mis-use co-authorship while writing their research papers. References to competitors' work are often ignored even when they are desired. The research data and results should be shared among the entire science community after the paper has been published. Peripheral contributions should not be taken as co-authorship. To remove this problem, institutions and agencies that give grants for research should not magnify an individual's contribution.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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Virtue in now-antiquated textbooks
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The old books of general relativity are important because of the information provided about cosmology, even if they fail to discuss some theories. In the famous Tolman's book of relativity first published in 1935, Albert Einstein's thermodynamically unstable static solution and other cosmological concepts are discussed but certain mathematics of cosmology are not explained. For calculations of the properties of black holes the concept of general relativity is essential.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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New genetics means no new ethics
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Genetic screening by a test aminocentesis is ineffective in identifying and reducing the number of unwanted genes, and may even increase their number. Molecular biologists have warned scientists about the negative aspects of the investigations on methods for improving human genes by manipulation of microorganisms. Biologists should be cautious while conducting such experiments which may have harmful consequences.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1993
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