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In a companion piece Higgs (predictor of the god particle) states that he
would not be able to get a job in academia today for lack of productivity.
What? Yes, he has not published enough, only one paper.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system

Martin


On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Charles Carlson <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

>
>
> What’s wrong with Science
> And Nature. And Cell. A Nobel prize-winner attacks elite journals
> BLUNT criticism is an essential part of science, for it is how bad ideas
> are winnowed from good ones. So when Randy Schekman, one of the 2013 crop
> of Nobel prize-winners (for physiology or medicine, in his case), decided
> to criticise the way scientific journals are run, he did not hold back.
>
> See full article
> Hi All,
> I think this may link to the full article.  It's a very short cool report
> on Schekman, if you like this sort of rebel rousing.
>
> C
> Sent from Charlie Carlson's iPad
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