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Tag: scientific publishing

Cosmology journal declares enemies evil, war won, all life alien

Posted on March 18, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

I lack time to do this justice, but thought it should enter the public record. The Journal of Cosmology’s latest release about the Hoover assertions about signs of alien life in a meteor, below, speaks for itself. You can find other context at my prior post on this. I should note that when the journal […]

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How to Crack Open Science – from ScienceOnline

Posted on March 15, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

What’s Keeping Us from Open Science? Is It the Powers That Be, Or Is It… Us? from Smartley-Dunn on Vimeo. Despite all its wonders, science today operates under some enormous constraints, many of them concentrated around the academic paper, which started as a way to spread science faster and wider, but now often serves more […]

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The Journal of Universal Rejection: Submit with certainty

Posted on January 28, 2011 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

I can think of several reasons NOT to do this post. I’m traveling. I’m trying to mix business and pleasure, family (loud) and work (quiet). I have no time, and, 7 time zones from home, no idea what time it is anyway. I have more important things to blog about. I can smell that the […]

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Why Publishing the Paper is Only Half the Scientist’s Job

Posted on September 22, 2010 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The scientific paper is a wonderful thing. So how is it holding science back? I’ve got a guest post over at the Guardian science  blog network pondering just that. In particular I look at how making the scientific paper the effective currency of science — instead of just one of several ways to share the […]

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Embargo? Embargo? The case of the missing swine flu paper

Posted on September 24, 2009 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

This shouldn’t be something that flu experts feel compelled to discuss sotto voce. If the journal has good reasons to sit on the paper for now, it should declare them. If not, it should get the paper out in the open so the data and findings can be examined and vetted openly.

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