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Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Mine get rejected for lack of adequate controls. RT @noahWG My thought experiments rarely yield anything publishable.
- alandove: Whoever's behind the @FakeElsevier tweets is friggin' brilliant. And no, it's not me.
- alandove: A case of scientific censorship that doesn't involve #H5N1: http://t.co/MRx664EW Mining industry vs. NCI and NIOSH.
- alandove: @_colm_ @profvrr @newprof1 Indeed. What good could come of studying deadly microbes, after all?
- alandove: RT @chrislhayes: So, GOP votes against Violence Against Women act, for transvaginal ultrasounds and has an all male hearing on birth con ...
- alandove: Science is sexy, but not like that. @Ananyo Hum. istock thinks this is what a young female scientist looks like http://t.co/mM9KnKX6
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- alandove: @easternblot Zhang @ Michigan or some such? Maybe they recently changed their address scheme and a student was just first in line at time.
- alandove: RT @Etche_homo: MT @Etche_homo Heartland buys anti-climate change "scientists" for $300K: p13 of http://t.co/im95AkoM #deniergate
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Open Access vs. Local Politics
Someone just asked me what I thought of Michael Eisen’s op-ed piece that came out in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago. Eisen wrote about a new bill in Congress that would roll back a NIH policy … Continue reading
Elsevier Makes Good: Original Wakefield Takedown Now Free
Awhile back, I blogged about a particularly insidious glitch in the biomedical literature, in which a fraudulent study that caused enormous harm was available for free, while a contemporary – and strikingly prescient – commentary that eviscerated that study was … Continue reading
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New Elsevier Slogan: “It’s All about The Benjamins”
Regular readers of this blog (both of you), and regular listeners of This Week in Virology (all 10,000-plus of you) are by now quite familiar with a fellow named Andrew Wakefield, and the epic and ongoing public health catastrophe he … Continue reading