Wong and Hodson (2009) found that scientists subscribed to the belief that both theories and laws are subject to change as new knowledge of the phenomena is gained with the introduction and application of new technologies.
In addition, many scientists now subscribe to the theory that the creation of an unnaturally microbe-free environment is at least partly responsible for the modern explosion of allergic and autoimmune diseases.
Virtually no scientist subscribes to the man-in-the-waiting-room theory, which is that depression is caused by a lack of serotonin, but many people report that they feel better when they take drugs that affect serotonin and other brain chemicals.
Some of young scientists have even subscribed to both networks.
Some crappy scientists have officially subscribed to this theory, presumably to drum up publicity for science and get more funding for research into how to blast meteorites out of Earth's trajectory.
These optimists, and even those who admit that Turkish democracy has its shortcomings, tend to subscribe to the political scientist Seymour Martin Lipset's famous modernization theory — the idea that greater democratization follows automatically as a country becomes more prosperous.
But that's a misuse of the metric, it argues: Journal impact factor was initially developed to help librarians determine which journals to subscribe to, not to rate individual scientists in competition for jobs or grants.
"I subscribe to the British magazine New Scientist, and whenever she's over... she enjoys reading about cutting-edge things," he said.
It now costs a remarkable $17,444 a year to subscribe to Brain Research, a Reed Elsevier title.Can the scientists translate their discontent into a commercial threat?
