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Societal Impact, History, Teaching, and Public Awareness

Why Is It so Hard to Do Good Science?

Ray Dingledine
eNeuro 4 September 2018, 5 (5) ENEURO.0188-18.2018; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0188-18.2018
Ray Dingledine
1Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0188-18.2018
PubMed 
30197928
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History 
  • Received May 17, 2018
  • Revision received July 5, 2018
  • Accepted July 8, 2018
  • Published online September 4, 2018.
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Copyright © 2018 Dingledine This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Ray Dingledine1
  1. 1Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Ray Dingledine, Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, E-mail: rdingle{at}emory.edu.
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  1. Author contributions: R.J.D. designed research; R.J.D. performed research; R.J.D. analyzed data; R.J.D. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The author declares no competing financial interests.

  • This study was partially funded by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Grant R01NS097776.

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  • HHS | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

    R01NS097776

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