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Ivory Tower, House of Cards

Ivory Tower, House of Cards

How Scholars and Their Publishers Violate Science

by John Jenkins
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/03/2017

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This book is a narrative of over two decades of exchanges with scholars, their academic publishers and employers, and the professional association that oversees and validates them. It focuses on recent exchanges, largely in 2015, and documents a series of officially filed error lists and complaints regarding scholarly errors needing correction, and the responses of the publishers, the science agency (NASA), and committees (the AAUP) that are appointed to oversee and uphold academic standards. A bizarre world of contradictions, evasions, bigotry, and sanctioned character assassination is exposed, indicting an elite club of Ivory Tower scholars, friends and colleagues engaged in sloppy research and guild protection whose behavior violates science and threatens their bastion of unethical self-interest with immanent collapse, like a flimsy house of cards.
ISBN:
9780998586823
9780998586823
Category:
Science: general issues
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-03-2017
Publisher:
John Major\Jenkins
Country of origin:
United States
John Jenkins

John Jenkins: a much-travelled journalist and editor, now based in greater Melbourne’s semi-rural fringe, his literary production has been considerable, including poetry, performance work, non-fiction, new music appraisal and short fiction.

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