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...elites. Readers would post comments judging the quality of the work, and an experiment or theory would either be buoyed by praise and interest, or, if found flawed, drown in a sea of anonymity. Such a system, proponents argue, would free science from the trammels of communication that currently retard its process. Chris Surridge, PLoS ONE’s managing editor recently told the Associated Press, “If we publish a vast number of papers, some of which are mediocre and some of which are stellar, Nobel Prize-winning work—I will be happy...
...trendy in trashing Boll," he says. " I hope a few people start focusing on the movie more if they?re writing about a movie, or if they?re writing about me they at least write about Boll?s fight of the situation, so that I?m not a complete retard." But, he admits, "I have the feeling that no matter what I do it will turn against...
Such vices, we were told, would retard our growth into men—at least the sort of men the school could be proud of having produced—and make us allies to a decidedly unmanly culture of permissiveness and moral relativism. If we ever hoped to be “men of substance,” instead of mere products of our decade, we’d have to cut our hair, find Jesus, and get to class on time...
Finally and most importantly, a faculty senate would only further retard progress at Harvard. On this page and on campus, a consensus has developed that if Harvard is to maintain its preeminence in academia, it must institute broad, progressive changes, something that has proven to be very difficult at an institution with a tremendous amount of inertia, history, and tradition. A University senate with more than symbolic power would only be an impediment to progress, slowing down the implementation of important decisions so they can be discussed at length by faculty members with already busy schedules—and that...
Conservatives see the writing on the wall, and it's the sense that the approaching juggernaut is unstoppable that fuels the political backlash. What conservatives cannot prevent in the broader culture they hope to at least retard, even if only around the edges, through the electoral process. But as with women's rights and civil rights, the genie cannot be stuffed back into the bottle...