Science as Oath and Testimony: Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008) Gerald Weissmann, Editor-in-Chief The demand for the meticulous prediction of which experiments will be done tomorrow, the detailed protocol of grant applications ... flies in the face of scientific discovery, which is full of false starts, the serendipidy, the unpredictability of any great discovery or any real important consequence. Joshua Lederberg, Stanford, 1978 (1) Publication ... converts private to public knowledge, in the service of registering a private claim of original authorship—in science, of discovery. Above all, the act of publication is an inscription under oath, a testimony. Joshua Lederberg, Marine Biological Laboratory, 1991 (2) <h3>STARTLED AND PRIVILEGED</h3> Josh Lederberg was already worried a generation ago: "One of the major trends of scientific writings for the past century is the systematic falsification of the actual techniques and method of discovery (1) ." Lederberg wasn’t concerned that published papers fail to mention the false starts, wrong turns, or dead ends on the road to discovery. He accepted the conventional forms of scientific publication, which he called "recipes for replication of the results." He even praised the traditional format of the standard research report for its "pedagogical elegance" that prevented dragging in
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Science as Oath and Testimony: Joshua Lederberg (1925–2008)
Weissmann, Gerald
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, Volume 22 (10): 3411
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Oct 1, 2008
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