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Over the years, Mr. Greenberg has been an often lonely voice championing the public's right to know how wisely scientists were spending its hard-earned money. It is probably fair to say that, through the medium of his newsletter, Science and Government Report, Mr. Greenberg pretty well invented a new
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Greenberg created the mythical character Dr. Grant Swinger, Director of the Center for the Absorption of Federal Funds. Q&As with Dr. Swinger and policy papers attributed to him continued to be published in Science & Government Report and other periodicals for which Greenberg wrote, and was
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Greenberg gained recognition for bringing a new style of reporting to the coverage of science, viewing it as among many claimants for government support, rather than as a politically detached enterprise:
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Throughout his science-writing career, Greenberg was a prolific contributor to popular and professional publications. From 1972 to 2003, he wrote a syndicated column that appeared in
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has helped to build its circulation to an all-time high of 160,000. In his nine years on the magazine, he wrote and directed numerous exclusives on the science beat" (
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1957–1961. In 1961 he was awarded a Congressional Fellowship by the American Political Science Association, after which he joined the "News and Comment" section of
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He described the author as "an informed and reflective newsman of the first rank, capable of combining lively journalism with careful scholarship."
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way to cover big science—as a form of government spending no different, in budgetary terms, from defense procurement or agricultural support.
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as "a document of unique importance reminds us how consequential science journalism of this kind and quality can be."
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throughout the 1960s had an electrifying effect on rival publications, which followed Greenberg as best as they could."
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In 2001, Greenberg published an indictment of the way that the United States government spent money on science in
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Visiting Scholar, Department of History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
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published in 1968 evoked strong reactions, pro and con, in the popular and scientific press. In
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Research Fellow, Department of History of Science and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 1965.
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2005 Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for
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1988 National Press Foundation Award for Investigative Journalism by Newsletters
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Greenberg was born in Brooklyn in 1931. His brother was the civil rights lawyer
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a newsletter which he edited and published until 1997 when it was acquired by
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and many other newspapers. He was also a frequent contributor to the British
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Science for Sale: The perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism
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Science for Sale: The perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism
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was published in the UK in a Penguin edition in 1969 under the title
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Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion
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Regents Lecturer, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1971.
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Tech Transfer: Science, money, love, and the ivory tower
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From 1974 to 1980, he wrote a Washington column for the
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Tech Transfer: Science, money, love, and the ivory tower
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observed that "Greenberg ... more than any other man on
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and from 1993 to 2002 a column for the British journal
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Brooklyn, New York
Washington, D.C.
Columbia University
BA
Jack Greenberg
Jack Greenberg
Columbia University
Science
John Wiley & Sons
The Washington Post
Robert K. Merton
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
John Maddox
Steven Shapin
Science, Money, and Politics
"Daniel S. Greenberg, Science Journalist and Iconoclast, Dies at 88"
"Daniel S. Greenberg, Science Journalist and Iconoclast, Dies at 88"
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0362-4331
"Columbia College Today"


"The Politics Of Science"
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10.1377/hlthaff.21.3.274



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