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One of the watchwords of politics in 2016 was the epidemic of “fake news” — a catch-all term encompassing propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and hoaxing — impinging on the presidential campaign. But let’s not overlook its spread in the spheres of science and medicine.
There's quite a paradox when it comes to our health data. Most of us still cannot readily look at it, but there’s been an epidemic of cybercriminals and thieves hacking and stealing this most personal information. By Eric Topol.
How administrative procedure and law failed a scientist accused of research misconduct.
With corporate funding of research, “there’s no scientist who comes out of this unscathed.”
As I was thinking about casting my vote for the Open Science Prize, I realized that I would in fact need a rubric for choosing. I was concerned that the public vote would tend towards popularity, familiarity, or bling, rather than the quality of the open science. But what does it mean to be “quality open science?” What should be the most important criteria?
Fake news and "post-truth," which may have played a role in the 2016 elections, are also problems in science publishing and science journalism.
Analysis casts doubt on fears that ‘publish or perish’ culture undermines quality.
Mr. Beall’s website, which identifies “predatory open access scholarly publishers” that masquerade as scholarly journals, has grown to 923 publishers from 18 in 2011.
Reading popular science articles causes non-scientists to overrate their expertise, research finds
Eight ways labs benefit from the popular workplace messaging tool.
These scientists made important contributions to physics, biology, astronomy and more
Universal Green OA Is the Most Efficient and Fairest of Science Publishing Strategies.
There’s no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
The astrophysicist's groundbreaking research on spiral galaxies provided evidence of invisible dark matter. She was a pioneer in an era when women were excluded from many astronomy programs.
The Royal Society Publishing Photography Competition celebrates the power of photography to communicate science.
Libraries pursue alternative delivery routes after licence negotiations break down.
So why make your work available as preprints? There are perceived positives and negatives to disclosing scientific work in the form of a preprint, explored here in the form of 10 Simple Rules.
How the scientist who founded the science of mistakes ended up mistaken.
Despite the typical stigma of retracting a scientific paper, Nathan Georgette is doing just fine — serving as a model to those many decades his senior.
10 simple rules to help you get across the main idea of your paper.
What would physics look like if Einstein had never existed, or biology without Darwin?
