As famously observed by the Yes Minister team....the dream outcome for any organization:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5zEb1oS9A&feature=youtube_gdata_player J Sent from my iPhone On 07/04/2012, at 3:16 AM, Patrick Loll <pat.l...@drexel.edu> wrote: > Ron makes an excellent point. Many institutions devote far more energy to > limiting risk than to doing the right thing. This leads administrators to a > frightening, but logical conclusion: The less science we do, the less chance > of our doing something that could invite a penalty on the university. This > translates into rules intended to head off bad behavior, but which in fact > make it more difficult to do honest science, and increase the administrative > burden (our IT group has already made great strides in this direction--if you > can't connect to the network, then you can't use it to violate HIPAA!). > So I agree that we should be cautious about "improvements." > Pat > > > On 6 Apr 2012, at 12:23 PM, Ronald E Stenkamp wrote: > >> Dear John, >> >> Your points are well taken and they're consistent with policies and >> practices in the US as well. >> >> I wonder about the nature of the employer's responsibility though. I sit on >> some university committees, and the impression I get is that much of the >> time, the employers are interested in reducing their legal liabilities, not >> protecting the integrity of science. The end result is the same though in >> that the employers get involved and oversee the handling of scientific >> misconduct. >> >> What is unclear to me is whether the system for dealing with misconduct is >> broken. It seems to work pretty well from my viewpoint. No system is >> perfect for identifying fraud, errors, etc, and I understand the idea that >> improvements might be possible. However, too many "improvements" might >> break the system as well. >> >> Ron >> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Patrick J. Loll, Ph. D. > Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > Director, Biochemistry Graduate Program > Drexel University College of Medicine > Room 10-102 New College Building > 245 N. 15th St., Mailstop 497 > Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192 USA > > (215) 762-7706 > pat.l...@drexelmed.edu
