ABSTRACT
About 50 years ago, Lorenzo Tomatis anticipated – with bitterness, but also with the clarity and optimism that distinguish the competent researcher – that ‘the world of research consists of a few dozen people who really matter, a small group of trusted workers, a significant number of uninformed (guilty and non guilty) ones, and a cohort of unscrupulous profiteers, true violators’ (Tomatis 1965: 139). It is not easy to identify the honest researchers, picking them out from among the violators and profiteers, whose main aims are promoting career and business. It is much simpler to actually carry out good research and identify any studies that are flawed or biased. This is, of course, a true researcher's main goal.
