There’s something wonderful about those art forms that can bypass our adult selves and touch the child inside us. Sand art has…
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Science Communication Dancing, sand art and science: Communication by art-y meansRead more
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Science Communication Opening a can of data-sharing wormsRead more
Are researchers’ dogs eating a lot of their homework? Well, yesterday afternoon at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting in Chicago, we…
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Bias Academic Spin: How to Dodge and Weave Past Research ExaggerationRead more
Yesterday’s uplifting emphasis at the quadrennial medical editors’ scientific meeting was bad research (“Bad research rising”). This morning’s motivational agenda focused…
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Bias Bad research rising: The 7th Olympiad of research on biomedical publicationRead more
What do the editors of medical journals talk about when they get together? So far today, it’s been a fascinating but rather…
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Science Communication Wassup, Wikipedia? Oh … wow!Read more
It’s one of the world’s most used websites – there are more than 20 billion page views a month. That’s hard to…
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Bias The Hawthorne effect: An old scientists’ tale lingering “in the gunsmoke of academic snipers”Read more
It’s easy to see a “cause and effect” relationship where there isn’t one. Or overlook one that should be as plain as…