Luxury conferences in the Swiss Alps, featuring cocktail parties and high profile speakers, like the secretary general of the UN, still continue today.
You could set up a Foundation, with an annual endowment of thirty million dollars. Research workers in need of fund could apply for grants, if they could make out a convincing case.
Visualising, Violating, and Humanizing Scholarship
Three weeks ago, COPE published new guidance for how to handle retractions of published articles - highlighting just how pressing the problem is becoming.
Governments award money (take), research is produced (make), which - unless a patent facilitates private ownership for a short time - becomes part of the scientific commons (waste).
Kidnapping Scholarship: Reckoning, Regulating, and Reimagining Plagiarism
“All over the country, meanwhile, students were and still are being upbraided, reprimanded, given F’s on papers, flunked in courses, and expelled from universities for doing this plagiarism thing, this indefinable thing.”
In discussing the extent to which science has met our curiosity about the university, we must remember that different minds are curious about different things.
