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Jumping the shark.
Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, USA. petsko@brandeis.edu
In popular-culture, 'jumping the shark' refers to an abandoning of core values in an attempt to appeal to dwindling audiences, a metaphor that might be reasonably be applied to some areas of genomics-based research.
PMID: 17274836 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
PMCID: PMC1839115
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