id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15336 Finnegan, Gregory A. Moran, Gordon. Silencing Scientists and Scholars in Other Fields: Power, Paradigm Controls, Peer Review, and Scholarly Communication. Greenwich, Conn. and London: Ablex Publishing (Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies, and Services), 1998. 187p. $73.25, cloth (ISBN 1-56750-342‐X); $39.50, paper (ISBN 1-56750-343-8). LC 97-30773. 1999-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1243 58 57 One may, or may not, find the jocularly face­ tious letter amusing, but it is a mighty weak reed to support, as Moran would have it, an indictment of moral failing in academe: “For someone studying the phenomenon of toleration of falsification, the compilation of [my] Reunion Direc­ tory was a real eye-opener.” Like most authors writing about sci­ ence in the past forty years, Moran fre­ quently invokes Thomas Kuhn, usually (in Moran’s repeated phrase) with reference to “paradigm-busting” opinions and their suppression. That Moran’s absolutist expectations of us are more than we can fulfill does not relieve us of responsibility for our roles in scholarly communication. cache/crl-15336.pdf txt/crl-15336.txt