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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
The days of research empires are definitely coming to an end no matter how much they try to stop it from happening. The battlefield for the right to scientific information is currently fought on the internet. Universities used to pay lot of money to get subscriptions to scientific journals. With time, they only have relatively less expensive e-journals saving lot of cost and space. At the same time, researchers are not even allowed to post their own published work in their own web page. This is because the publishing house making it difficult to avoid law suites if one does something similar. At the same time, most of the research is done using public money. Go figure how the pages printed on the internet becomes copyrighted when the work is done using public money, researchers get no money for writing a good article and reviewers who take time to validate the claims are not paid a dime!
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The Maine fight was supposed to be the dress rehearsal for repealing California's Prop. 8 -- but gay marriage lost
Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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