Thank God, my brain was too big anyhow. I'm expecting confirmation of that very fact again this Christmas. Seems I'll wake up and it'll feel like my brain is trying to get out of my head cause it's way too tight in there.
Don
The graduate students in government subsidized/supported colleges these days are running out of topics for their ph.d dissertations.
MODERATION IS THE KEY! Your grandmom with no high schooling could have told you that. For some, half a glass is too much while for others a bottle is the starting dosage.
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The "publish or perish" phenomena is more applicable to the physical, biological, and chemical sciences and not really applicable to the medical sciences.
You would be surprised at the amount of medical (bench and clinical) research that is done that never finds it's way to a paper or that takes several years (3, 4, even 5 years) between data acquisition and paper submission.
Quite a bit of medical research is, naturally, conducted by MD's who usually have clinical responsibilities and thus are really not in a position to "perish" if they don't "publish".
Don't fool yourself about this sort of stuff being "publish or perish". Dig deep enough and I bet you will find that this is funded research from some anti-alcohol group. Having been there I know that there is very little research by professors or graduate students that is not funded by some group who wants to prove a point.
As far as the moderation being the key, I agree with the concept of moderation 100% and carry it to an extreme. I am VERY careful to moderate my moderation!
Ray
And since they have little or no research training (that's why med schools offer dual MD/PhD programs) much of that research is flawed, which is why it doesn't get published.
If a proposed research project was really flawed then most likely it wouldn't get funded in the first place. The granting process tries to weed out flawed research before it happens.
Remember that there is a wide spectrum of medical research being performed. The media mostly focuses on clinical and epidemiological research (you know, stuff like this food or that food is good/bad for you, this or that behavior is good/bad for you, etc). You don't hear a lot about the findings from bench or physiological or pharmacological or device research (over the heads of most people).
Of course you hear little to nothing about the increasing amount of research being done by academic labs that are paid for and directed by pharma and device companies (large companies as well as small start-ups). Data generated from those studies are used to support FDA submissions as well as help attract VC financing.
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