Even for an evidence food fight – and those get plenty heated – the hue and cry about the new American Heart…
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Bias Saturated Biases: Where the AHA Advice on Coconut Oil Went WrongRead more
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Listicles 3 Things Expressions of Concern Reveal About the Research Publication SystemRead more
An editorial expression of concern is a way to alert readers to behind-the-scenes worries about the integrity of a publication. It emerged in…
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Bias The Case of the Missing Neuro Drug TrialsRead more
The case of the missing neurological drug trials remains shrouded in mystery. Nearly 48,000 people took part in these trials for new…
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Science Communication Who’s Who on Science Twitter and Who Counts?Read more
Remember the Kardashian index? That was Neil Hall’s 2014 tongue-in-cheek(ish) dig at science Twitter and “Science Kardashians” – scientists with a high…
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Science Communication Debunking Advice DebunkedRead more
“Recommendations for effective myth debunking may thus need to be revised”. One of the authors of this conclusion is Stephan Lewandowsky. He’s also one…
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Science Communication A Little Springtime for Green Open Access? Icons for More Free Full Texts in PubMedRead more
There’s a new kid on the publication access block at PubMed. It’s a little one, so you might not notice it…
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Black History Month How-To Guide: Help Find Missing Scientists’ FacesRead more
Do you want to see more photos and stories of amazing women and other under-represented scientists? Sure you do! And you can…
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Black History Month Black History Month: The Complicated Power of More Women Scientists’ FacesRead more
The photos are gorgeous. They’re uplifting. The images bring women we have not heard of before to life, shifting our own…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2016: A Year of Price Bargaining, Preprints, and a PirateRead more
A few years ago, I wrote that open access (OA) publications were gaining momentum. Based on a study of 2006 to 2010…
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History “The Same Folly, the Same Fury”: A.V. Hill in 1933Read more
Freedom itself is again at stake… It is difficult to believe in progress, at least in decency and commonsense, when this can…
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Health Down and Almost Out in Scotland: George Orwell, 1948, and Nineteen Eighty-FourRead more
A tweet jolted me today. Doublespeak hit the news a few days ago, sending George Orwell’s final masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, back into a…
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Evidence When Science Polarizes: A Personal Activist Story with EvidenceRead more
There was another one of those “we’re living in echo chambers” papers recently. It’s from the same data on science and conspiracy theory social…