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Afanasyev suffered a nasty embarrassment last month, when Pravda reprinted a lurid dispatch from an Italian newspaper claiming that reformist Supreme Soviet Deputy Boris Yeltsin boozed and shopped his way through a tour of the U.S. The paper was later forced to publish an apology, even though tapes subsequently broadcast over Soviet television appeared to show Yeltsin at least mildly intoxicated. But Afanasyev's most serious failure was one that has also undone many an editor in the West: falling circulation. Over the past four years, as Soviet news buffs switched to livelier journalistic fare, Pravda's readership slipped from...
FOOTNOTE: *To vote for your favorite news photo in this issue, write to Photojournalism, P.O. Box 6000, Radio City Station, New York, N.Y. 10185. Give the page number and headline of the caption. Sometime after Dec. 15, 1989, we'll publish the results...
...hard-hitting report that accused the scientific community of allowing the pressure to publish to make them too "tolerable of substandard practices," the Institute of Medicine offered some other suggestions for reducing the incentive for fraud. Among them: decreasing the emphasis on publications in promotion considerations and limiting the number of junior faculty members under any one professor...
Scientists should recognize that fraud does occur, and that the pressure to publish or perish is the primary cause. It would be in everyone's best interests for scientists to address the problem candidly, rather than ignore it or defensively deny that it exists. Scientists should waste no time in enacting new safeguards of their own, before Congress imposes the clumsy remedy of its choosing. After all, Congress has better things to do than to pick on Nobel laureates...
...Publish and publicize agendas ahead of time, at least two days before every meeting. If students had known the ROTC vote was coming, the controversy wouldn't have taken the council by surprise...