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The Key to Fighting Pseudoscience Isn't Mockery - it's Empathy
Evidence shows that shoving data in peoples' faces doesn't work to change minds.
Microsoft AI Suggests Food Bank As a "Cannot Miss" Tourist Spot in Canada
AI-penned Microsoft Travel article recommends food bank as a must-see destination.
Wildfire Smoke from Australia Fueled Three-year "Super La Niña"
How wildfire smoke from Australia affected climate events around the world.
Alphabet Launches a Company called Chronicle
Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is launching a new company under the Alphabet umbrella. It's called Chronicle, and the new company wants to apply the usual Google tenets of machine learning and cloud computing to cybersecurity.
Journal Tries Crowdsourcing Peer Reviews, Sees Excellent Results
Approach allows reviewers to focus on the stuff they know best, speeds up process.
107 Cancer Papers Retracted Due to Peer Review Fraud
New papers were found through investigations into previous fraud.
Analysis of Meta-Analyses Identifies Where Sciences' Real Problems Lie
But the pressure to publish might not be such a problem after all.
Can we trust peer review? New study highlights some problems
Can we trust peer review? New study highlights some problems
Competitive peer review increases innovation, but it has a dark side.
Scientific publishers are killing research papers
Pressure to publish short articles removes details, leaves readers confused.
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
Open access: All human knowledge is there—so why can’t everybody access it?
We paid for the research with taxes, and Internet sharing is easy. What's the hold-up?
EU excludes open source from new tech standards
Op-ed: Big US companies could use patent licensing to throttle EU startups.
Biologists start sharing unpublished work—oh, the horror!
Bemused physicists watch biologists start biorXiv, party likes it's 1991.
A spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz is angering publishers all over again
Meet accused hacker and copyright infringer Alexandra Elbakyan.
Chief Coca-Cola scientist leaves amid criticism over obesity research
Research shifted focus away from harms of sugary drinks to exercise benefits.
"WikiGate" raises questions about Wikipedia's commitment to open access
Jimmy Wales co-founder of Wikipedia asked to reconsider arrangement with paywalled science publisher Elsevier.
No solutions for a decade-old problem
Another set of ideas for fixing the funding crisis for young researchers.
Are we producing too few or too many science and technology grads?
According to a new report, the answer is "both."
There's not a creativity deficit in science
Reply to a recent opinion stating that creativity was being suppressed in science.
Is there a creativity deficit in science?
If so, the current funding system shares much of the blame.
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