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Tag: scientific journals

The paradoxical virtues of primacy in science

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Primacy is a false virtue imposed by the structures of modern science – yet it is also necessary to right some wrongs.

March 28, 2022 Analysis, Science

Bharat Biotech gets 1/10 for tweet

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If I had been Bharat Biotech’s teacher and “Where is your data?” had been an examination question, Bharat […]

June 15, 2021 Science

Another controversy, another round of blaming preprints

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On February 1, Anand Ranganathan, the molecular biologist more popular as a columnist for Swarajya, amplified a new […]

February 1, 2020 Analysis, Scicomm, Science

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO […]

October 16, 2017 Op-eds, Scicomm

Are the papers behind this year’s Nobel Prizes in the public domain?

Note: One of my editors thought this post would work for The Wire as well, so it’s been […]

October 5, 2017 Scicomm
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