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Legal Victory Takes Toll On Journal MIT's Magnet Lab Keeps Trying Back In The Classroom A Stand Against Too Many Authors Minority Schools Get Help For AIDS Trials Despite a New York state court ruling last month that scientific journals enjoy special immunity against libel suits based on the expression of an opinion, the editor who was the defendant in the case (The Scientist, Oct. 1, 1990, page 1) believes that he's won a Pyrrhic victory. "The circulation has dropped by a third," says

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Legal Victory Takes Toll On Journal

MIT's Magnet Lab Keeps Trying

Back In The Classroom

A Stand Against Too Many Authors

Minority Schools Get Help For AIDS Trials

Despite a New York state court ruling last month that scientific journals enjoy special immunity against libel suits based on the expression of an opinion, the editor who was the defendant in the case (The Scientist, Oct. 1, 1990, page 1) believes that he's won a Pyrrhic victory. "The circulation has dropped by a third," says Jan Moor-Jankowski, editor of the Journal of Medical Primatology, "[after] the publishers [Alan R. Liss Inc.] raised the price from $180 to $312 in an effort to kill it off" before selling it last year to a Danish company, Munksgaard Ltd. But Judith Aisen, assistant general counsel for John Wiley & Sons Inc., which bought Liss shortly before the journal was sold, disputes his claim. ...

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