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A reporter's tips for understanding science journalism: http://www.cjr.org/analysis/understanding_science_journalism.php http://www.cjr.org/analysis/understand
by tokenadult 12y ago
A reporter's tips for understanding science journalism:
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/understanding_science_journalism.php http://www.cjr.org/analysis/understanding_science_journalism...
A dialog between two scholars about how make scientific research more trustworthy:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/13/how-to-make-scientific-research-more-trustworthy/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/03/1...
A blog post, "How Can We Improve the Article Review and Submission Process?" with many suggestions for improving scientific publishing:
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/03/26/ask-the-chefs-how-can-we-improve-the-article-review-and-submission-process/ http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/03/26/ask-the-chefs-...
In the end, we have to count on incremental improvements in publishing, and incremental improvements in reading by all of us, to prompt medical studies and all kinds of scientific studies to become more accurate and informative about important issues. We especially have to improve our own tendency to seize a hopeful answer whether or not it's a true answer as we grapple with life's problems. (When I write "we" here I am including all of us, including myself, whether we are producers or consumers of scientific studies.) Medical studies specifically and scientific studies in general have helped humankind gain a lot of useful knowledge, but it has been a slow, unsteady process with lots of back and forth.
P.S. All the links I've posted here, including the one opening the thread, are from the "Weekend Reads" weekly post on the Retraction Watch group blog, which I think many Hacker News participants will find interesting.
http://retractionwatch.com/2015/03/28/weekend-reads-monsanto-demands-retraction-fast-track-peer-review-for-fee-scrutinized-fraud-in-china/ http://retractionwatch.com/2015/03/28/weekend-reads-monsanto...