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The scientist as inadvertent loser
Twice this week, I’d had occasion to write about how science is an immutably human enterprise and therefore some of its loftier ideals are aspirational at best, and about how transparency is one of the chief USPs of preprint repositories … Continue reading
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Tagged Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics journal, citation, citation racket, H-index, impact factor, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Kuo-Chen Chou, Lorenz attractor, peer review, post-publication peer-review, preprint papers, preprint repositories, reviewer coercion, scientific research, transparency, trustlessness
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Another controversy, another round of blaming preprints
On February 1, Anand Ranganathan, the molecular biologist more popular as a columnist for Swarajya, amplified a new preprint paper from scientists at IIT Delhi that (purportedly) claims the Wuhan coronavirus’s (2019 nCoV’s) DNA appears to contain some genes also … Continue reading
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Tagged 2019 nCoV, Anand Ranganathan, bad journalism, bad science, bioRxiv, hegemony, IIT Delhi, Jonathan Pruitt, post-publication peer-review, preprint server, preprints, scientific journals, The American Naturalist, The Hindu, The Wire Science, transparency, Wuhan coronavirus
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