The evolution of biomedical science: past, present, future perspectives.
The evolution of biomedical science: past, present, future perspectives.
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生物医学科学的演变：过去、现在、未来的观点。
DOI：
10.1097/00001888-197701000-00001
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发表时间：
1977
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通讯作者：
J. H. Comroe
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作者：
J. H. Comroe
长期以来，我一直对这样一个事实很感兴趣，即备受尊敬的基础和临床科学家，他们总是在自己的研究中使用严格的科学方法，在向国会委员会提供建议时使用完全相反的技术，这些委员会决定了美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）的预算，从而制定了国家生物医学科学政策。一些科学家，一旦在国会山，似乎忘记了他们的科学背景，要么提供纯粹的轶事证据（我称之为“让我给你一个例子”或“单一病例报告”的方法）或承诺在指定日期内发现（例如，“给我们10亿美元，我们将在1970年之前在人体内植入一个功能性人工心脏，或者在两百周年纪念年前治愈癌症）--如果他们的博士前或博士后研究员在国内说出这些话，他们会在一微秒内推翻这些话。
I have long been intrigued by the fact that highly respected basic and clinical scientists, who have invariably used rigorous scientific methods in their own research, use precisely opposite techniques when giving advice to Congressional committees that shape the budgets of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and so formulate national biomedical science policy. Some scientists, once on Capitol Hill, appear to forget their scientific background and either give purely anecdotal evidence (what I caill the “let-megive-you-an-example” or the “single case report” approach) or promise discoveries by specified dates (for example,“Give us a billion dollars and we'll have a function-ing artificial heart implanted in man by 1970, or a cure for cancer by the Bicentennial Year)–statements that they would demolish in one microsecond if uttered by their pre-or postdoctoral fel-lows back home.