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Civility in scientific publishing: The glyphosate paper
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Blaylock RL
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In recent years, we have witnessed a decline in civility in the public arena when
various socially sensitive issues are being presented. Those of us engaged in the
publishing of scientific papers and in our comments on these papers, need to be
cognizant of the social graces, courteous demeanor, and chivalry. Debates are
essential to our learning and in being able to ferret out the essentials of
various scientific issues that are of value. Because of the amount of time and
effort connected with analyzing the complex problems and the years invested in
such endeavors, we often resort to the behavior, that is, contentious and at
times even quite insulting to our opponents during our defense. This is the part
of human nature but as civilized human beings, we must strive to maintain the
courtesy and a calm demeanor during such discussions and debates. I have yielded
to such temptations myself but am striving to repent of my sins. The medical and
scientific history should have taught us that in defending our ideas we learn and
sometimes come to the realization that our paradigm or hypothesis is wrong,
either in part or whole. Such debates allow us to fine tune our ideas and correct
our errors in thinking, which are easily, consciously, or subconsciously
sublimated by our enthusiasm. The glyphosate papers presented ideas that, while
well supported by the scientific studies and logical conclusions, also contained
some possible errors in its suppositions. Dr. Miguel Faria challenged some of
these concepts and was met with some degree of derision by one of the authors.
This editorial comment is in response to these issues.
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