Never mind the extraordinary cases of academic fraud; journalists should "go beyond the high-profile scandals to reveal an under-reported aspect of contemporary research--the low-level misconduct that corrodes the scientific enterprise."
So writes Declan Fahy of American...
Never mind the extraordinary cases of academic fraud; journalists should "go beyond the high-profile scandals to reveal an under-reported aspect of contemporary research--the low-level misconduct that corrodes the scientific enterprise."
So writes Declan Fahy of American University in a post at Columbia Journalism Review's The Observatory. The headline and deck on the post are, "Rooting out bad science: Big scandals grab headlines, but journalists can do more to expose misconduct."
Fahy offers a very nice collection of links related to scientific misconduct, many of which are worth clipping and saving for the next time some crackpot researcher or brilliant deceiver is exposed as a fraud. He gets a bit further afield when he links to such things as the familiar John Ioannidis...
I'm not eager to review the latest disclosures of offenses by the neuroscience writer and fabulist Jonah Lehrer, because, frankly, I'm too repelled by it. But if you're looking for a recap (and it's grim, I assure you), you can find it...
I'm not eager to review the latest disclosures of offenses by the neuroscience writer and fabulist Jonah Lehrer, because, frankly, I'm too repelled by it. But if you're looking for a recap (and it's grim, I assure you), you can find it on last Friday's edition of Tammy Powledge's excellent blog, On Science Blogs This Week.
She also reviews the latest on the climate conversion of former skeptic Richard Muller, complete with charts, tables, and graphs.
Powledge's blog--you can find the link every Friday on the home page of the National Association of Science Writers--should be essential reading. I always find something I would have been sorry to miss.
- Paul Raeburn
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