Tag Archives: Science journal
Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrogen and ammonia with renewable energy would be sited just 5 kilometers from … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged carbon credits, Cerro Armazones, Cerro Paranal, Chile, clean energy, European Southern Observatory, Extremely Large Telescope, Mauna Kea, Science journal, SpaceX Starlink, Thirty Meter Telescope, Very Large Telescope
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Does science have trouble seeing governments?
From ‘Energy megaproject in Chile threatens the world’s largest telescopes’, Science, January 10, 2025: The AES project would occupy several sites totaling 3000 hectares, and the plants making hydrogen and ammonia with renewable energy would be sited just 5 kilometers from … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged carbon credits, carbon trading, Cerro Armazones, Cerro Paranal, Chile, climate change, European Southern Observatory, Extremely Large Telescope, green hydrogen, renewable energy, Science journal, SpaceX Starlink, Thirty Metre Telescope, Very Large Telescope
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An infuriating editorial in Science
I’m not just disappointed with an editorial published by the journal Science on November 14, I’m angry. Irrespective of whether the Republican Party in the US has shifted more or less rightward on specific issues, it has certainly shifted towards … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Science
Tagged COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump, John Stuart Mill, Marcia McNutt, Republican Party, Science journal, US National Academy of Sciences
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Violence shuts science? Err…
Dog bites man isn’t news. Man bites dog is news. I’m reminded of this adage of the news industry – and Nambi Narayanan’s comment in August 2022 – when I read reports like ‘Explosion of violence in Ecuador shuts down … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged CONDESAN, Ecuador, Nambi Narayanan, Science journal
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What’s with superconductors and peer-review?
Throughout the time I’ve been a commissioning editor for science-related articles for news outlets, I’ve always sought and published articles about academic publishing. It’s the part of the scientific enterprise that seems to have been shaped the least by science’s … Continue reading
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Tagged academic publishing, arXiv, Jan Hendrik Schön, LK-99, Nature journal, peer review, preprint papers, Ranga P Dias, room-temperature superconductivity, Science journal
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Yes, scientific journals should publish political rebuttals
If they can. Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Scicomm, Science
Tagged Anthony Fauci, Björn Brembs, false balance, glamour journals, journal prestige, peer review, pro-democracy, Science journal, science journalism, science news, scientific journals, Tucker Carlson
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Prestige journals and their prestigious mistakes
On June 24, the journal Nature Scientific Reports published a paper claiming that Earth’s surface was warming by more than what non-anthropogenic sources could account for because it was simply moving closer to the Sun. I.e. global warming was the … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, climate geoengineering, morality, Nature journal, Nature Scientific Reports, retraction index, Science journal
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