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The scientist as inadvertent loser

Feb 7, 2020 4 min read
Analysis Science 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

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 o…

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Another controversy, another round of blaming preprints

Feb 2, 2020 5 min read
Analysis Scicomm Science 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

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 coro…

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