Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps scholars ought to reveal sources of funding for the reasons Professor Hoffmann offers. But I disagree with Professor Hoffmann that "concealment (of sources of funding) deprives them (readers and students) of an important element in evaluating research." Quite the contrary, the source of funding is not important in evaluating research. Again it is the work itself that matters. If we should reveal sources of funding, why not also membership in any political organization that has an interest in a particular issue? Or should we make obligatory an ideological autobiography to inform the reader about the axes about...
...absence of detailed information, Europeans and their governments took frantic steps. Polish authorities banned the sale of milk from cows fed on fresh grass and said children from birth to age 16 would receive iodine solutions to keep their bodies from absorbing the element in radioactive form. That created lines of up to 100 customers at Warsaw drugstores, while special all-night pharmacies had block-long queues even at 4 a.m. Washington advised women of childbearing age and all children against traveling to Poland because of potential health risks. Rumania, declaring a state of alert in all parts...
...sources of funding and sponsorship, and to indicate whether the sponsor has been granted a right of pre-publication review. A scholar, especially when he is also a teacher, has a commitment to openness and honesty in his relation with readers and students. Concealment deprives them of an important element in evaluating research; selective concealment is a form of deception. Teaching and scholarship require trust; trust, in turn, requires openness...
This final element is, I think, the crucial one: graduate student activism...
...move which came five days after most College classes stopped meeting to observe the reading period, the Faculty Council unanimously endorsed a statement which cited "the element of coercion that may be involved" when classes meet at the shantytown and calls such moves "unacceptable," said Faculty Council Secretary John R. Marquand...