False priorities at EU2016NL: Mandate Open Data instead of Gold Open Access!
Open Science is these days largely about mandatory publishing in Open Access (OA), regardless of the costs to poorer scientistsContinue Reading
Category: Research Reproducibility
The stem cell faith healers, or magic inside your bone marrow
Bone marrow stem cells are magic, they can do everything. If you don’t believe it, you are simply a loserContinue Reading
Voinnet aftermath: ethical bankruptcy of academic elites
Olivier Voinnet, the disgraced former star plant scientist and professor at ETH Zürich, is apparently on extended sick leave, hisContinue Reading
Blatt is back: “open debate cornerstone of scientific process”
Michael Blatt, Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Glasgow and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Plant Physiology, is backContinue Reading
Research “parasitism” and authorship rights
Two seemingly opposing medical editorials on the subject of data sharing have recently been published. One, by the International CommitteeContinue Reading
Do nanoparticles deliver? Merck’s Smart Flares and other controversies
Two somewhat controversial approaches to nanoparticle delivery: the striped nanoparticles by Francesco Stellacci, and the spherical nucleic acids by Chad Mirkin.
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