There’s a lot of hype in scientific publications – and about them, too. Hype doesn’t help if we want to make informed decisions…
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Science Communication Breaking Down Pros and Cons of Preprints in Biomedicine
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Evidence 5 Tips For Avoiding P-Value Potholes
The hunt for p-values less than 0.05 has left many of science’s roadways riddled with potholes. More than 50% of them in…
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Bias The Skills We All Need to Move Past “Anti-Science” and “Us”
If you didn’t believe a prevailing scientific position, you used to be part of a small fringe. To get information on your side…
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Bias How to Spot Research Spin: The Case of the Not-So-Simple Abstract
Spin doctoring is deliberate manipulation. I don’t think everyday research spin is intended to deceive, though. Mostly it’s because researchers want to get attention…
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Science Communication CRISPR, Priority, and Credit: Do We Need to Edit Science’s DNA?
“She’s like the poster child for collaboration”. Jon Miller was talking last weekend at the AAAS session about scientists’ virtues. The “she” was Jennifer…
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Black History Month Wikipedia Activism and Diversity in Science
There’s no getting around it. A lot of scientists are white men, and it’s always been that way. But it’s never…
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Annual open access roundup Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Brink
It’s the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping – charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for…
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Health Pylori Story #4: The Microbe Revolt
Could any life form survive in the stomach’s sizzling acid? Most thought there was no chance! And yet…there were occasional unexplained sightings&hellip…
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Health Pylori Story #3: Drug Wars – The Lab Strikes Back
Scientists plotted in their labs, looking for a chemical target to stop the acid. The first lead was a hormone trigger for…
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Health Pylori Story #2: Journey to the Center of the Stomach
For hundreds of years, doctors battled dim light that burned! Lenses and gadgets that showed too little! But when the breakthrough to…
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Health Pylori Story #1: Acid Attack
Digestion! Stomach grinds, fermentation sparked by vitalism… Even Pasteur believed it! But others said chemistry could do it. They found… acid. But…
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Listicles 8 PubMed Ninja Skills
A few million people use PubMed every day – many pretty much every day. And everyone’s got their own habits, shortcuts, and…