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From: Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 99 10:10:07 EDT
Subject: re: FW: Information poverty


Nic quotes:
>To be a scientist in a developing country is to be on the periphery of world
>science - one's work goes unnoticed. A scientist in a developing country,
>who invariably works under adverse conditions, needs to achieve a lot more
>to win recognition than those who work under much better conditions in the
>developed countries. Perhaps this is not surprising. After all, we live in
>an unequal world. A New Scientist editorial revealed that when it comes to
>choosing manuscripts for publication, editors of reputed international
>journals are more likely select one from Harvard in preference to one from
>Hyderabad, even though both manuscripts may be of comparable quality ( 1).
>Harvard any day is considered a safer bet than Hyderabad!

That's certainly the prevailing attitude here, amongst the cancer 
researchers.  They are very angry that our email domain is changing to 
partners.org because it won't say "harvard" in the address any more.  This is 
a continual source of amusement for the email support staff.


   

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