Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date December 24, 2014 Categorized Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Peer review: Some positive suggestions Denyse O'Leary December 24, 2014 Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Okay, enough about the problems, here’s an article offering “Ten Simple Rules for the Care and Feeding of Scientific Data” Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date December 23, 2014 Categorized Media, News, Science Peer review: When joke papers get cited, maybe it isn’t a joke Denyse O'Leary December 23, 2014 Media, News, Science Someone complains: "even if it’s a parody, isn’t funny, it’s sexist and elitist" - totally missing the point Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date December 22, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review From PNAS: What’s wrong with peer review Denyse O'Leary December 22, 2014 News, Peer review Retraction Watch: Put another way, peer review rewards mediocrity at the expense of breakthroughs. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date December 16, 2014 Categorized Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Peer review: The Simpsons’ gang from TV get themselves a journal paper Denyse O'Leary December 16, 2014 Intelligent Design, News, Peer review About "fuzzy" symmetries’s influence on the work of Japanese mad scientist Karthik Lakshminarayanan. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date November 27, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: Science journals are past their sell-by date? Denyse O'Leary November 27, 2014 News, Peer review Science publishing CEO: scientific publishing, surprisingly, has hardly changed since the first journal article in 1665. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date November 26, 2014 Categorized Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Latest big peer review scandal: Fake reviewers Denyse O'Leary November 26, 2014 Intelligent Design, News, Peer review “Self-peer review?” Okay: Everyone is, by definition his or her own peer, right? If we flunk that review, my dears, we DO need help. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date November 5, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: Assured results of modern science Denyse O'Leary November 5, 2014 News, Peer review Image manipulation? Shades of Haeckel’s embryos! Did they do retractions in Haeckel’s day? Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date November 3, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: New Yorker asks, Is the field of psychology biased against conservatives? Denyse O'Leary November 3, 2014 News, Peer review Yes, and the resulting confirmation bias is directly related to the sheer number of recent social science scandals. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date September 21, 2014 Categorized Climate change, extinction, News Peer review: Snail declared extinct turns up again, no retraction issued? Denyse O'Leary September 21, 2014 Climate change, extinction, News Even the snail couldn't get Biology Letters to publish a retraction of its alleged extinction. ;) Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date September 12, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: How about evaluating peer review? Denyse O'Leary September 12, 2014 News, Peer review PRE: The peer review process is increasingly under fire. Questions about trust abound. How do users determine what content to select? Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date September 5, 2014 Categorized Genetics, News Peer review: Brain genetics paper on schizophrenia retracted Denyse O'Leary September 5, 2014 Genetics, News On the bright side, this seems to have been a responsible, back-to-the-drawing-board, retraction. One we can learn from. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date August 28, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: Not publishing social science studies with null results harms public discourse Denyse O'Leary August 28, 2014 News, Peer review Not publishing null results may skew people's ideas about the society around them. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date August 18, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review; At Discover Magazine, Neuroskeptic asks whether science can work without trust. Denyse O'Leary August 18, 2014 News, Peer review Would a den of thieves be more or less vulnerable, on account of total dishonesty, in conflict with an honest person? Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date August 10, 2014 Categorized News, Peer review Peer review: On scientist suicides over retractions Denyse O'Leary August 10, 2014 News, Peer review And no one means it to come to this! Look, it isn’t worth suicide. Read More ›
Type post Author Denyse O'Leary Date July 16, 2014 Categorized Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Hank Campbell on the corruption of peer review Denyse O'Leary July 16, 2014 Intelligent Design, News, Peer review Oh, but all that’s all right because the parties concerned were presumably on the right side of the Green Machine. Read More ›