Tag Archives: Ingelfinger rule

To see faces where there are none

Posted on November 22, 2019 by

This week in “neither university press offices nor prestigious journals know what they’re doing”: a professor emeritus at Ohio University who claimed he had evidence of life on Mars, and whose institution’s media office crafted a press release without thinking … Continue reading →

Posted in Science | Tagged arXiv, Björn Brembs, conspiracy theories, Elisabeth Bik, image manipulation, impact factor, Ingelfinger rule, journal rank, Nature Medicine, Ohio State University, open knowledge, pareidolia, peer review, preprints, research fraud, William Romoser | Comments Off

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO first detected. So I don’t know why the LIGO Collaboration, and Nature, bothered to embargo the announcement and, more importantly, the scientific … Continue reading →

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