There's more to science (and life) than scoops

Blystone, Scott D.

doi:10.1038/426759c

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Published: 18 December 2003

There's more to science (and life) than scoops

Scott D. Blystone¹

Nature volume 426, page 759 (2003)Cite this article

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Reading Helen Pearson's News Feature “It's a scoop!” (Nature 426, 222– 223; 2003) about competition in biology is likely to depress a lot of young researchers. What greater honour or peer recognition could there be than finding competitors relaying the results of your poster by cell phone, as described in your News Feature?

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Blystone, S. There's more to science (and life) than scoops. Nature 426, 759 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/426759c

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Issue date: 18 December 2003
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/426759c