Yet Science seems to have become as interested in garnering headlines in the popular press as in publishing solid research--perhaps, more. Twice in June 2005 alone, it played up stories that subsequently proved suspect--a June 3 article purporting to prove the ivory-billed woodpecker alive in an Arkansas swamp, offering what later proved inadequate proof, and then Hwang.
The race for fame and glory skews science no less than the arts and literature or sports. That individuals and publications, like Science, feel they must engage in it to prove their worth--and do so to the exclusion of all other values is a sad commentary on society--and on them.
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