Although courses on the protection of
human subjects will not be
evaluated by the NIH, universities and
research institutions will have to provide their own «educational programs» for their investigators.
The present authors have all been
subject to such attacks, whose similarity is notable because the authors»
research spans a broad range of topics and disciplines: The first author has investigated the psychological variables underlying the acceptance or rejection of scientific findings; the second author is a paleoclimatologist who has shown that current global temperatures are likely unprecedented during the last 1,000 years or more; the third and fourth authors are public - health researchers who have investigated the attitudes of teenagers and young adults towards smoking and
evaluated a range of tobacco control interventions; and the fifth author has established that
human memory is not only fallible but
subject to very large and systematic distortions.