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in praise of self-policing
It’s IRB week over at The Hardest Science; Sanjay has an excellent series of posts (1, 2, 3) discussing some proposed federal rule changes to the way IRBs oversee research. The short of it is that the...
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In defense of Facebook
[UPDATE July 1st: I’ve now posted some additional thoughts in a second post here.] It feels a bit strange to write this post’s title, because I don’t find myself defending Facebook very often. But...
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A long, long time ago (in social media terms), I wrote a post defending Facebook against accusations of ethical misconduct related to a newly-published study in PNAS. I won’t rehash the study, or the...
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Why I still won’t review for or publish with Elsevier–and think you shouldn’t...
In 2012, I signed the Cost of Knowledge pledge, and stopped reviewing for, and publishing in, all Elsevier journals. In the four years since, I’ve adhered closely to this policy; with a couple of...
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