I thought this book might test my ability to make an assessment on the merits — the cardinal rule of reviewing — since the author is the daughter of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who, she acknowledges on the very first page, is accused of being a charlatan, a triple agent and the source of faulty intelligence that led the United States into war in Iraq.
The turn of events has introduced what researchers say is unprecedented uncertainty to a realm of academic science normally governed by the laws of nature and the rules of peer review.
Now he wants to rewrite the rules of peer review.
However, as per the rules of the Review Battle, only one can get our recommendation.
"Rules of Civility" (reviewed on Page 20) is a fizzy, finely observed tale of an ambitious young secretary from Brooklyn who falls in with a crowd of upper-class bright young things in late 1930s Manhattan.
The New England Journal of Medicine's apology for violating its own strict conflict-of-interest rules for reviews and editorials (news article, Feb. 24) prompts me to challenge the conventional wisdom of "the stricter the better".
The review recommended that rules of engagement be reviewed and harmonised for the defence force and Operation Sovereign Borders, the new disclosures show.
Never break the number one rule of movie reviews: don't give too much away.
But Mr. Schumer, a member of the Banking and Finance Committees, repeatedly took other steps to protect industry players from government oversight and tougher rules, a review of his record shows.
Also on the table are new instructions for decision-making processes and stopping rules, rolling review of emerging human data during the study, communication to authorities and subjects, and guidance on the type of scientific information to be included in a trial application.
