These sound bites, most of which are not even complete sentences, are designed to convince you to watch the six o'clock news, and the headlines are designed to get you to buy a newspaper. Berlin, whose medical career has spanned 50 years, presented a chart that ranked news sources in order of credibility. Peer-reviewed scientific papers received the highest level of confidence. Scientific news journals came next. Rumor and gossip ranked lowest, and national news magazines were next to the bottom in confidence level.
Scientists are the best sources for information about science.
But scientists need funding to conduct research. And scientists who work for public companies are sometimes confronted with dilemmas about what is considered news and when it should be released to the public. However, preclinical data on the protein and its antiangiogenic effects had not been published. At the request of the scientists who wished to have their research published in a peer-reviewed paper before subjecting it to public scrutiny, Genzyme did not reveal the exact identity of the protein. It's a difficult call in these situations, where scientific, business, and legal considerations have to be satisfied.