Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label science. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 March 2016

Personalised, Individualised or Precision Medicine: Three Unaddressed Socio-economic Hurdles

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After the BRAIN initiative of 2013, in 2015 US president Obama announced another large scale government funding scheme for biomedical sc...
Wednesday, 28 October 2015

How to Read News About Science and Research (Very Brief Abbreviated Checklist Edition)

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Step 1 Does the headline or introduction contain any of the following expressions: "might", "should", "expected to...
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Sunday, 23 November 2014

Three Tales On Research Citation, Funding and Freedom

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It is an ever growing development in the world of academic research, that researchers are being measured by various criteria of performance...
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Wednesday, 15 October 2014

Dr Jean-Claude Worms of the European Science Foundation Threatens Critics of ESF Policy: He Should Resign or Be Sacked - Effective Immediately.

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Obviously the European basic science funding flagship, the European Science Foundation (ESF) is in a sorry state if anything even akin to...
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Thursday, 29 August 2013

Another Comment on Empirical Research Relating to Ethics and Morality: The Moral Behavior is not Necessarily so Moral at All

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So, once again I have dared to post a small comment on an article in the mighty PLOS ONE open access science journal . Last time, as some...
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Sunday, 5 February 2012

How to Avoid Shaming Yourself and Your Field in the Academic Online Open Access Publishing Jungle

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This is a post that follows up on two former ones ( here and here ) about how the new possibilities for easily setting up online open acces...
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Friday, 23 December 2011

Has the journal Nature sold out to the alternative medicine industry and quack/fake science?

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What to say about this move of the world's (by far) most prestigeous scientific journal?  Well, this surely does not inspire much co...
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Saturday, 19 November 2011

On the Very Idea of Security and Terrorism Research

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A little while ago I posted about a debate in my country with regard to research on and press reports about alleged former Swedish agents o...