November 4, 2007

Editorial: It is not just the work - It is also the words

Ramaswamy Murali
Indian J Crit Care Med 2007;11:169-72
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While one can sympathize with the handicaps in language faced by the Turkish physicists it is important to remember that it is the responsibility of the scientist to meet ethical standards established by the journals or societies in which they intend to publish. Indeed, the example from Turkey highlights a lack of understanding that scientists are also writers and that published language is as proprietary to a scientist as discovery is.>>>

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