Ivan Oransky...
Category: scienceblogs
Ivan Oransky broke the story at Retraction Watch, and now National Geographic confirms it.
National Geographic "has assumed management of day-to-day operations for Scienceblogs.com, expanding a relationship with Seed Media Group that started when National Geographic took on ad sales responsibility for Scienceblogs.com in 2009."
ScienceBlogs...
For those who have followed my discussions here about industry-produced blog posts...
For those who have followed my discussions here about industry-produced blog posts at ScienceBlogs and at Forbes, you might be interested to know that this is not a new phenomenon. Long before "blog" entered our lexicon, E.B. White, the eminent prose stylist--who, to my knowledge, was not especially known as a defender of journalistic mores--railed against a similar situation in Esquire magazine--in 1976!
David Cay Johnston reminds us of the episode,...
In July, as...
In July, as we noted here, a controversy over corporate blogs masquerading as news sent some of the smartest folks at ScienceBlogs fleeing to other nests. Most have now settled down somewhere, and, I'm happy to say, are back at work. David Dobbs and Maryn McKenna are now at Wired Science. Deb Blum is blogging at PLoS. Rebecca Skloot, as far as we can tell, is still touring for her book and has not resurfaced with a blog, although I do see her on Twitter...
In her...
In her column in Sunday's New York Times Magazine, "Unnatural Science," Virginia Heffernan cites three examples from science blogs and comes to the following conclusion:
Under cover of intellectual rigor, the science bloggers — or many of the most visible ones, anyway — prosecute agendas so charged with bigotry that it doesn’t take a pun-happy French critic or a rapier-witted Cambridge atheist to call this whole ScienceBlogs enterprise what it is, or has become: class-war claptrap.
Do you hear that, science bloggers? That's you she's talking about.
Under the guise of reporting on...
Update: As I was putting up this post, Adam Bly, CEO of ScienceBlogs, announced that he was removing Food Frontiers from the site. The corporate blogs by ...
Update: As I was putting up this post, Adam Bly, CEO of ScienceBlogs, announced that he was removing Food Frontiers from the site. The corporate blogs by Invitrogen, Shell Oil, and General Electric are still there, although only General Electric's appears to be active.
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Responding to...
Outrage over the decision by ScienceBlogs to run a blog produced by Pepsi--see...
Outrage over the decision by ScienceBlogs to run a blog produced by Pepsi--see my post earlier today--continues to grow. Best-selling author Rebecca Skloot has now announced her resignation from the site; her Culture Dish will reappear elsewhere. And the Guardian has published a confidential letter from Adam Bly, Seed's founder and CEO, in which he attempts to justify the decision to give Pepsi a blog.
Excerpts from Bly's letter to his bloggers...
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