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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 7, 2018
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Science Confronts Credibility Issues?

Not to worry, prestigious researchers blame them on social media trolls and bots
Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2018
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Ethics, Social Factors, Technocracy
And another thing: The researchers phoned the Seventies and asked them to please come back. Soon. Seriously, that’s the impression I get from reading a paper in PNAS, stemming from the National Academy of Sciences’ Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium November 2017 Read More ›
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Mind Matters
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September 23, 2018
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Does digitization threaten science?

It enables new abuses, according to a Cambridge nanoscientist
Mind Matters
September 23, 2018
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Social Factors
The problem is not digitization as such, of course, but the mindset that it inadvertently encourages. Sometimes, for example, “citation rings” agree to cite each other’s papers so as to artificially inflate their rankings. Sometimes it graduates to “citation stacking” Read More ›