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Crusading Editor Aims to Shake Things Up in Science
- jackcosgrove 11y agoScientists should be careful when staring into the abyss of politics, that the abyss does not stare back into them.
- munchbunny 11y agoScientists getting involved in (U.S.) politics may be a good thing given the current state of matters. Sure, we don't want politics distracting our best scientific minds, but at the same time this might lead to slightly more sane policy decisions (like giving the EPA more teeth).
- soyiuz 11y ago> The BMJ “should carefully think about what it wants: to remain a top scientific medical journal, or to transition into a public-opinion publication that seeks to attain the highest ratings possible based on one-sided positions that are not carefully researched,” said Rafael Perez-Escamilla, an epidemiologist at Yale University. “They can’t have it both ways.” It seems that the editor is crusading to get politics and commercial interests out of science. They can have it both ways in that sense: to remain on top and to attract attention to the corruption at the heart of the endeavor.
- biomcgary 11y agoThe title is misleading. I followed the link hoping for an article about an editor willing to enforce open data, better statistics, etc. Instead, the editor is trying to shake things up in medicine and politics/policy. Based on the article, I would infer the editor is just another moralizing, do-gooder crusader trying to leverage "science".