Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even more troubling are signs that financial considerations may have replaced scientific rigor in determining how and when to use gene therapy. Nearly every investigator currently running a clinical trial has a relationship of one sort or another with a biotechnology firm. Some critics charge that businessmen are pushing researchers too hard in order to get a quick return on their investment, and that some doctors have been too hasty, launching clinical trials early in hopes of "cashing out" when a large drug company buys their firm...
...College would only publish a list of departmental courses that satisfy the existing Core areas--as it currently does for Science A and B--students would have the choice and rigor that they deserve. This would be the first step on the way to a system of distributional requirements. The second step would be the deletion of all courses that could not be funnelled back into their departments of origin, in order to insure a substantive curriculum within distributional areas...
...works himself into the role of the dying man, jerking and grimacing with each hollow pop, then polishes off the narrative with a punch line. The dead man never actually fell. He walked outside with five bullets in his back and sat down on the curb where rigor mortis...
Core courses are commonly--and often rightfully--regarded as watered-down versions of regular, departmental courses in the same disciplines. Even courses that purport to focus intensely on a single period of time or area of academic theory gloss over the rigor inherent in true study. Cores are seen as "guts" in many cases--lackadaisical breaks from an otherwise profound education. Students should not be given the obligation or the opportunity to take courses that do not measure up to departmental standards...
...points being the Littauer Center and the Kennedy School. Put crudely, one does theory while the other does policy. The two camps often look at each other suspiciously. The policy types degrade the theory types for having lost touch with reality; the theorists argue that the policy wonks lack rigor. Much of this taunting is friendly, a way of creating an identity by ridiculing "the other." But the friendly competition masks a real problem: the two types of thinking are largely segregated. The result is theory that can border on the irrelevant and policy that frowns upon any questioning...