This paperemploys discourse analysisandpathresearch to exploretheunderlyingsocial and psychologicalforcesof various rumors about AIDS in thepast decade.
Three years ago Caterpillar opted not to follow competitors down the conventional researchpath and instead gambled on a new technology it believed would be more efficient.
Pharmaceutical companies say that high monopoly rents on new medicines assure incentives for high-risk research on future path-breaking medicines and pay for past efforts that resulted in failure.