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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Bias The Case of the Missing Neuro Drug Trials
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Science Communication Who’s Who on Science Twitter and Who Counts?
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 Debunked
“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 PubMed
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’ Faces
Do you want to see more photos and stories of amazing women and other under-represented scientists? Sure you do! And…
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Black History Month Black History Month: The Complicated Power of More Women Scientists’ Faces
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 Pirate
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 1933
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-Four
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 Evidence
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…
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Science Communication Silence: Everyday Betrayals of Research Participants
Many of them were watching the evening TV news on the BBC, with no idea of the blow that was…
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Reproducibility Reproducibility Crisis Timeline: Milestones in Tackling Research Reliability
It’s not a new story, although “the reproducibility crisis” may seem to be. For life sciences, I think it started in the…