Donald Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Donald Kennedy is an American scientist, public administrator and academic. He served as Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, President of Stanford University, and Editor-in-Chief of Science Magazine. He resigned as president of Stanford University in 1992 in the wake of a scandal involving expenses charged to the federal government...
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As Science celebrates its 125th birthday, we've recognized that an examination of science's outstanding mysteries also reflects its tremendous accomplishments.
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A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
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So here's the situation confronting the drug firms: The drugs cost more to make, but they can't charge more for them. What do they do? Increasingly, the U.S. market is driving them toward drugs aimed at the diseases of richer, older Americans and away from antimicrobials, vaccines, and the like.
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This is really a twin tragedy, both for the people who were misled over there, and for those of us who were misled over here.
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Academic freedom really means freedom of inquiry. To be able to probe according to one's own interest, knowledge and conscience is the most important freedom the scholar has, and part of that process is to state its results.
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We are going to be giving that paper careful scrutiny, guided by what we can learn in the course of time about the 2005 one and what went wrong there.
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We carefully considered the implications of publishing this research and concluded that the knowledge we're gaining to potentially protect public health far outweighs the risk of working with the virus.
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We don't see them as a threat, but possibly as a competitor,
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We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.
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Today, science's most profound questions address some of the largest phenomena in the cosmos and some of the smallest. We may never fully answer some of these questions, but we'll advance our knowledge and society in the process of trying,
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We are determined to do everything in our power to evaluate our own procedures for detecting research misconduct.
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We are doing a systematic review of the editorial history of both papers and our procedures for evaluating them, to search for ways in which we might improve those. I have pointed out in the past that even unusually rigorous peer review of the kind we undertook in this case may fail to detect cases of well-constructed fraud. To support this effort, we are calling on outside experts, including members of our Board of Reviewing Editors and our Senior Editorial Board.
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We were just really rejoicing thinking that this brother is alive.
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We're sort of pondering what they mean by research misbehavior, which is not in anybody's anthology of terms about research impropriety.