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| | TAP: Vol 11, Iss. 14. Conversation: Open Science or Junk Science?. Marcia Angell M.D. and Harvey Blume. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | On his article on PubMed Central, the NIH's new electronic archive of biomedical research, Harvey Blume paints critics like me as quixotically trying to hold back the Internet (he refers to the controversy as "a tale of new technology versus old, of innovation and inertia"). |
 | | As for Dr. Angell's claim that the unreviewed section of PubMed Central will become a depository for "junk science and promotional material disguised as research," it may simply be too soon to tell how much, if any, truth there is to this charge. |
 | | Her argument that Dr. Varmus, by basing PubMed Central on the design of the Los Alamos National Laboratory's physics archive, was mistakenly assuming that doctors (like physicists) are research scientists when they are in fact primarily clinicians, is also well represented in my piece and, in part, incontrovertible. |
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