Science or show business

Business and Science

economic evaluation models. According to the authors, traditional approaches to assessing investment opportunities fall short in the pharmaceutical industry. At a time when the healthcare industry is placing increasing emphasis on licensing as a core strategy this book provides a firm understanding of the way in which products and businesses can be valued at all stages of their development, whi...

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GLOBAL WARMING Science by Consensus, Popularity, or a Show of Hands

“Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in ...

Design Science for Business Management

This issue of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science explores the connection between design science and business management. The relationship may not be obvious since it is rather subtle in some instances. However, the nature of problems that design science is confronted with is analogous to the nature of problems business management tackles. Both design science and business manag...

Parapsychology: Science or Pseudo-Science?

Do paranormal or parapsychologicalinvestigationsmeet the criteria often said to characterize pseudo-science? Mainstream and non-mainstream research is compared through content analysis of selected samples of mainstream journals from several fields and of non-mainstream (‘‘fringe’’) journals. Oral communication processes were studied at an annual meeting of the ParapsychologicalAssociation. Thou...