Tag: peer review

A new open-source medical journal has been launched

December 23, 2012
science

The Victorian model is passing, the rise of Internet centric open-source journals is here, as an example here is the …Click to read more…

Claims of Peer Review for Intelligent Design examined … and debunked

Claims of Peer Review for Intelligent Design examined … and debunked
October 7, 2012
biology

One of the many variations of modern creationism (the folks that claim ‘god did it’ is the right answer) is …Click to read more…

Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, quits in protest

Winston Hide, associate editor of Genomics, quits in protest
May 17, 2012
politics

Winston Hide is the associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of …Click to read more…

Open Access to Scientific papers … the pressure is growing

Open Access to Scientific papers … the pressure is growing
April 25, 2012
science

The academic rebellion initiated by Cambridge mathematician Tim Gowers is growing in strength. First a bit of context. The Victorian …Click to read more…

Liberating Science

Liberating Science
April 10, 2012
science

There is some really encouraging news in the Guardian today concerning the highly annoying pay-walls that lock a lot of …Click to read more…

Intelligent Design examined – Peer Review

Intelligent Design examined – Peer Review
February 20, 2011
Critical Thinking

There is a thriving sub-culture of folks out there who dismiss evolution and instead promote an alternative known as, “Intelligent …Click to read more…

Peer review: Trial by Twitter

Peer review: Trial by Twitter
January 23, 2011
science

Interesting article in nature a couple of days ago … first the core of the article, then some additional thoughts …Click to read more…

Witty and funny Peer Review Comments

Witty and funny Peer Review Comments
December 16, 2010
Humor

The peer review journal Environmental Microbiology has a panel of knowledgeable subject matter experts who review and comment on articles …Click to read more…