Academic freedom

Treatment Effect in Randomized Clinical Trials A Meta-Analytic Evaluation, Depression and Anxiety 19 (2004) 10-19 Leo, Jonathan, Academic Freedom and Controversy over the Publication of Factually Correct, Publicly Available Information (2009) http //online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/leo statement for WSJ.htm[25/o4/2009 17 56 46]... 

We are also indebted to the University of Siurey (APM/NS) and the University of Birmingham (NS) for allowing us the academic freedom to explore many of the strands that have been woven into the fabric of this book and for providing invaluable library facilities. 

At first glance, the methodological differences between a philosophical and a historical reflection on science appear to be overwhelming and insurmountable. There is, it seems, no possibility for communication between a historian and a philosopher of science. Some people would be content with such a state of affairs according to the maxim Do not meddle with others business. The claims are marked out and everybody has to dig in his own place for gold. However, I think that - notwithstanding academic freedom - as members of the academic republic we have neither the right nor the possibility to act in this manner. 

More transparency would make it harder for drug companies to distort results. It would help to protect academic freedom at America s research institutions. And it would make patients more likely to receive the safest and most appropriate treatments. 

No, my dear ladies and gentlemen of the press, quite the reverse is true Anyone who threatens academic freedom and freedom of the expression of opinion shakes the very foundations of the German society s self-perception and endangers the moral foundation of Germany ... 

However, he claims for himself the fundamental principle of academic freedom as expressed in the February 5, 1992, report of the Justice Committee of the Austrian National Assembly.55... 

But even new and extensive scientific material evidence, advanced in order to reverse the decree of self-evidence, has been refused by the courts. In this context the Federal German Supreme Court decided in 1993 that even the refusal of motions to examine self-evidence, as one defense counsel proposed to do in an appeal document,341 is proper legal procedure due to the self-evidence of the Holocaust.139 The Holocaust, therefore, is a judicially safeguarded view of history which this decision renders completely untouchable. This represents an inquisition in its purest and highest degree, and a gross violation of the human rights to academic freedom and the freedom of expression and opinion. 

For Merck, it was as though someone had knocked a bottle of pills off the shelf while the cap was loose, and all the contents were tumbling out. Vendors and employees said Merck didn t care about its people the way it used to any more. Researchers said they didn t have the academic freedom they used to. Rival companies still looked up to Merck, but for many of them it was only one of the best. It was no longer on a pedestal by itself. 

Cattell RB1950 Personality a systematic theoretical and factual study. McGraw-Hill, New York Coleman JS 1990 The Sidney Hook Memorial Award address on the self-suppression of academic freedom. Acad Quest 4 17—22... 

De George, R.T. Academic Freedom and Tenure Ethical Issues, Rowman Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Lanham, Massachusetts, 1997 1-28. 

McGhan, W.F. Tenure and academic freedom Vital ingredients for advancing practice, science, and society. Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 1996, 60 (1), 94- 97. 

The competing interests of confidential information and academic freedom can raise a difficult issue in an industry/university research agreement. If an academic institution is not free to publish the results of its research findings, it has failed to fulfill a part of its basic mission. Many universities have by-laws or regulations which guarantee faculty members complete academic freedom to publish research findings. At the other end of the spectrum, the corporate research sponsor is justifiably concerned about the loss of potentially valuable technical information through... 

In most situations the industrial sponsor should try to agree to publication of Background and University Technical Information (subject to prior review by both parties). To circumvent the "academic freedom" obstacle (and protect valuable research developments), corporate sponsors of university research should request the right to review papers or articles by university scientific personnel pertaining to the Sponsored Research field sufficiently in advance of the time they are to be submitted for publication. The advance review period should afford the corporate party adequate time to evaluate the proposed publication for the presence of patentable subject matter or Corporate Technical Information. Publication of an invention prior to filing a patent application can bar most foreign patent protection (e.g. European Patent Convention Article 54) and disclosure. 

The premature death of Dr. Joseph W. Kennedy, Chairman of the Chemistry Department at Washington University, was a serious blow to Sowden, as well as to his colleagues in the department. Kennedy had done a masterful staffing and building job, and was a staunch supporter of academic freedom. To his associates, Sowden showed many of Kennedy s administrative talents, yet it was characteristic of him that he was unaware that he was being observed by his colleagues as a possible successor... 

FIGURE 286. More chemical mischief in Chemistry No Mystery the Old Philosopher ( O.P ) has allowed his class to participate in the nitrous oxide experiment. I imagine the following dialogue afterward Lucky you are tenured, sayeth O.P. s Department Chair Academic freedom, responds O.P Don t press your luck, responds the Chair who sees no excuse for laughter in a lecture hall. 

In January 1977, Monsanto Issued a press release announcing the formation of a five-man advisory committee "concerned with the public interest," which is charged with seeing that both sides honor their contractual promises to protect academic freedom— i.e., the right to publish—and to develop any products that may emerge in a manner consistent with the public good. The latter... 

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