Apr 30 Tue 2013 NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCE Panel on Envy
Some less publicized stories of misbehavior in science in the cause of personal ambition, beyond the more obvious crime of fraud, were aired by a trio of well informed speakers at the New York Academy on Tuesday evening, at a well attended, unrecorded panel on Envy at its newly sumptuous headquarters at 7 World Trade Center, whence it moved from its pleasantly old fashioned townhouse on the Upper East Side a few years ago.
High above the WTC rebuilding which has now erected its new supertower far past the 41 st Floor on which the Academy is now ensconced, with views outside the window walls of Wall Street, The Hudson, the Statue of Liberty and the shores of Staten Island and New Jersey, the less elevated acts of Nobel prize winners elbowing out their deserving partners and other grubby and ungentlemanly acts perpetrated by the small minded were paraded.
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Envy: The Cutthroat Side of Science
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The New York Academy of Sciences
From publish-or-perish to the race for ever-decreasing research dollars, scientists are under pressure to produce new scientific findings. Recent reports suggest an increase in the number of scientific articles published in journals, accompanied by an enormous increase in retractions. Has the competitive culture of science gone too far to ensure the integrity of scientific findings? How do scientists maintain ethics in the face of such pressure?
Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American Mariette DiChristina will moderate this panel of experts who study the way in which competitive scientific culture does and doesn't warp the integrity of scientists. Dr. Harold Garneruncovered the shockingly common phenomena of self-plagiarism amongst scientists while Dr. Ivan Oranskyheads the watchdog group Retraction Watch. Dr. Morton Meyers captures the long history of conflict at the heart of the highest honor in science, the Nobel Prize. From the latest scandals to the most infamous, join the Academy for a conversation between scientists, doctors, and authors as they try to unweave the web of scientific envy.
Reception to follow.
Registration Pricing
Member $15
Nonmember Student $20
Nonmember $25
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Read MoreHigh above the WTC rebuilding which has now erected its new supertower far past the 41 st Floor on which the Academy is now ensconced, with views outside the window walls of Wall Street, The Hudson, the Statue of Liberty and the shores of Staten Island and New Jersey, the less elevated acts of Nobel prize winners elbowing out their deserving partners and other grubby and ungentlemanly acts perpetrated by the small minded were paraded.
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Envy: The Cutthroat Side of Science
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
The New York Academy of Sciences
From publish-or-perish to the race for ever-decreasing research dollars, scientists are under pressure to produce new scientific findings. Recent reports suggest an increase in the number of scientific articles published in journals, accompanied by an enormous increase in retractions. Has the competitive culture of science gone too far to ensure the integrity of scientific findings? How do scientists maintain ethics in the face of such pressure?
Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American Mariette DiChristina will moderate this panel of experts who study the way in which competitive scientific culture does and doesn't warp the integrity of scientists. Dr. Harold Garneruncovered the shockingly common phenomena of self-plagiarism amongst scientists while Dr. Ivan Oranskyheads the watchdog group Retraction Watch. Dr. Morton Meyers captures the long history of conflict at the heart of the highest honor in science, the Nobel Prize. From the latest scandals to the most infamous, join the Academy for a conversation between scientists, doctors, and authors as they try to unweave the web of scientific envy.
Reception to follow.
Registration Pricing
Member $15
Nonmember Student $20
Nonmember $25
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