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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There is no question in our minds that the stem cell paper published 19 May 2005 by the journal Science needs to be retracted.
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We assumed a certain level of familiarity there and I wasn't about to argue with an agreement among co-authors about order. I don't like complimentary co-authorship and would have asked, I think, if it had occurred to me.
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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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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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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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A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
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At the time of publication, we felt on ethically solid ground.
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We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.
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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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Since we do not yet have sufficient information to proceed with the retraction, we are issuing this statement so that readers are aware that concerns have been raised about the validity of the data in this paper.
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The process benefits enormously from the kind of candor that results when referees know that their identity is held in confidence.
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There are enormous pressures to be extremely productive and at the top of the heap.
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It is clear the authors are going to need to provide more details as to where the errors lie and how they arose.
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It is a recipe only in the sense that 'catch a turtle' is the recipe for turtle soup,