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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 11:48:48 EST
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- From: "Gerri Oppedisano (8-863-7225)" <gerri@WATSON.IBM.COM>
- Subject: What's the beef?
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- > I have never read of a case where congress is rescinding peer-reviewed
- > research awards *because* those proposals don't sound scientific
- > Is that the reason why they have been rescinding peer-
- > reviewed research awards? I thought is was because of a decision to
- > cut back on funding, because those proposals did not seem important
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- > enough, or because they did not see the benefit of doing such research.
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- > | _ l _ * Matthew Simpson * BITNET: |
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- Isn't this the whole point in question though? If it isn't "science" it
- isn't of value? I thought the issue here is because psych is generally
- viewed as a pseudo-science and perhaps even a flakey field, research in
- the field is generally viewed as not of benefit. Scientific merit does
- hold its weight. If your point is that psychologists are not presenting
- well, then maybe you have a point, but the problem seems that a mere
- glance at the title of the proposal/paper/research can give an impression
- of "valuable" or not based on how "scientific" it sounds (i.e.Sybil's
- experience).
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- gerri
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