Science, democracy and emerging threats to scientific progress

Can trustworthy science flourish in countries suffering from dictatorship? This is an increasingly relevant question. Many commercial publishers want to maximise their profits (as is to be expected in a capitalistic system) and are pushing into non-democratic countries with rapid economic growth lik...

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Autor principal: Feller, Stephan M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3491050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22916710
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-10-24
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spelling pubmed-34910502012-11-07 Science, democracy and emerging threats to scientific progress Feller, Stephan M Cell Commun Signal Editorial Can trustworthy science flourish in countries suffering from dictatorship? This is an increasingly relevant question. Many commercial publishers want to maximise their profits (as is to be expected in a capitalistic system) and are pushing into non-democratic countries with rapid economic growth like China. But how much can we trust the papers coming from countries with dictatorial regimes? BioMed Central 2012-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3491050/ /pubmed/22916710 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-10-24 Text en Copyright ©2012 Feller; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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