The Pursuit of Herd Immunity is a Folly - So Who's Funding This Bad Science?
Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving
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Links between an anti-lockdown declaration and a libertarian thinktank suggest a hidden agenda, say scientists Trish Greenhalgh, Martin McKee and Michelle Kelly-Irving
Charts and maps show paradoxes of a pandemic that has claimed a million lives
Publishers have retracted more than 20 COVID-related papers. Are they learning from their mistakes and fixing process failures?
This year, candidates for tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in MB&B will be asked to submit anonymized applications—no names of people, places, funding agencies or journals.
Review and commentary can help authors improve their articles; curation can provide readers with helpful context and enhance discoverability. But despite the benefits, barriers to reviewing and curating preprints remain.
Big moves to rebuild the scientific infrastructure are possible, argues Ulrich Dirnagl.
Analysis at Dutch university suggests researchers are not reporting a large number of animal experiments.
Open Access (OA) is central to the UK Government’s ambitions for research and innovation. Public funders are reviewing their OA policies and working collaboratively to understand how to take forward the Government’s ambitions.
Over the past few weeks, prominent scientific publications have condemned President Donald Trump's record on science. This is unprecedented.
Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been 'strangely silent' about masculinity in academia.
Bad papers are still published. But some other things might be getting better.
Restoring degraded natural lands highly effective for carbon storage and avoiding species extinctions.
This group set about the world ranking bodies answerable to the communities they rank, by seeking to introduce an evaluation mechanism of their own to rate the rankers.
This chart shows which countries are making progress to end the pandemic everywhere and which are not.
Kirstie Whitaker and Olivia Guest ask how open ‘open science’ really is.
A case in Nevada has spurred new concerns that people who have recovered from the infection may still be vulnerable. That's unlikely, experts say.
Let's start all over again about face masks. The noise about them is a Judas Priest blare. Can we turn down the volume for a moment?
Scientists identify a species that appears to absorb potentially lethal UV radiation and emit blue light.
Study instead suggests people are initially attracted to those with similar features to themselves.
A camera-trap image of an Amur tiger takes the grand prize at Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2020.
Bar-tailed godwit flies more than 12,000km from Alaska to New Zealand in 11 days.
We need more transparency in how scientific knowledge is created and communicated, especially in the context of a pandemic where science should guide important decisions affecting millions of people.
This study examines the composition of academics’ networks at different points in their career and discuss the role of transnational ties within them.
A company operating in the shadow of government regulators has some very particular rules about what workers can say about it.