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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
- alandove: Blog post: Exploring the Sourdoughome. http://t.co/70vxEEar
- 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
- alandove: I have a "Drafts" folder? How much effort am I supposed to put into these 140-character messages?
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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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Tagged autism, Elsevier, fraud, open access, science publishing, vaccines
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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
How about Walking the Walk?
From the inbox: Below is information about articles being published in the April 19 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. The information is not intended to substitute for the full articles as sources of information. Annals of Internal Medicine attribution … Continue reading
From the Inbox: Journal Spam
Dear Colleague, The Journal of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research (JCBBR) is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published monthly by Academic Journals (www.academicjournals.org/JCBBR). JCBBR is dedicated to increasing the depth of research across all areas of this subject. Translation: we’re launching … Continue reading
Step Right Up, Get Yer Fresh, Hot Data
The Obama administration has announced the launch of a new website with troves of freely accessible data from across the government. The site includes major releases of several new datasets that agencies used to charge money for, as well as … Continue reading
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Tagged database, government, open access, public policy, science
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Open Access: Who Pays?
Over the past few years, a model of scientific journal publishing called "Open access" has generated tremendous buzz. Relying heavily on digital technology, and preaching a gospel of free access to scientific information, open access journals allow anyone, anywhere, to … Continue reading