HEGEMONY OF MEDIOCRITY IN CONTEMPORARY SCIENCES, PARTICULARLY IN IMMUNOLOGY

J Klein

Abstract


The controversial article which follows, grapples
with the "business of doing science." As a criticism of
research generally and immunology in particular, it
bears directly on lymphology as an investigative
discipline. As an indictment of modern sdentific
research the author cuts a braod swathe and paints a
grim if not grimy picture of academia and the research
enterprise. If this eminent immunologist's highly critical
thesis strikes a responsive chord, then not only is wide
dissemination of his message justified, but along with it
honest reappraisal and remediation of harmful trends in
medical research and scientific communication as currently
practiced world-wide (CLW).


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