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Silencing scientists and scholars in other fields : power, paradigm controls, peer review, and scholarly communication /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moran, Gordon
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Greenwich, Ct. : Ablex Publishing, 1998.
Series:Contemporary studies in information management, policy, and services.
Subjects:
Communication in science.
Academic freedom.
Science and state.
Censorship.
Peer Review.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Silencing scholars within totalitarian and democratic forms of government
  • Intellectual freedom, intellectual suppression, the big lie, and the freedom to lie
  • Rhetoric versus reality in academia
  • Paradigm dependency in academia and its effect on peer review
  • Double standards and peer-review suppression
  • Toleration of falsification
  • Transition from academic discussion and debate to controversy and scandal
  • Saying what you believe
  • Trust, skepticism and whistleblowing
  • Peer review secrecy
  • Politically correct
  • Out of cite, out of mind
  • Role and responsibility of academic librarians
  • Silencing scholars in the electronic age.