Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem - Bloomberg

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-29

Summary:

"Srinubabu Gedela was 24 in 2006 and studying for his doctorate at Andhra University in Visakhapatnam, on the east coast of India, when he faced firsthand what he’d later view as a scourge plaguing scientists in the developing world. Since the 17th century, medical journals have been the portal through which researchers gain insight into the latest discoveries and best practices from colleagues continents away. But subscriptions to the top publications can cost thousands of dollars a year. As Gedela tells it, he was trying to break new ground on diabetes, and Andhra’s research library was woefully understocked. Gedela comes from Allena, a village of roughly 2,000 people. He was raised there in a mud-walled, sugar-cane-roofed shack by farming parents. How were budding scientists like him supposed to advance, he wondered, without the tools afforded to their more privileged counterparts in the West?"

 

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-29/medical-journals-have-a-fake-news-problem

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Date tagged:

08/29/2017, 21:02

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08/29/2017, 17:02