A subject that’s come up in discussion with my friend a couple of times recently has been the increase in retractions of scientific papers from journals. I’ve always staunchly defended allegations this might be due to naughty scientists. I am now having to make my own retraction about that. According to research (as yet unretracted) […]
science publishing
Sciblogs
A quick note…The reason I’ve been absent the last little while is because of this marvellous thing, on which we’ve been working (real) hard the last few weeks. Yes, the SMC presents Sciblogs.* fanfare *Note: it launches officially on Wed, which means…
The (threat) challenge to science publishing
An article I recently wrote for the Science Media Centre (note, there’s a really cool sound recording from the WCSJ on the SMC website, here). The debate’s a complicated one - this article just manages to lightly touch upon some of the issues…The Op…