Rowland Institute Library Blog

Address real people and real issues and think of questions ahead of time, this article in Today’s Engineer urges (Source: WHAT’S NEW @ IEEE IN COMPUTING)

A Nature news article examines the appearance of increasing competitiveness in the life sciences, a push to get results out as fast as possible in pursuit of grants, tenure, prestige and other aims. A story is told of a couple that presented a poster and published their results, just barely ahead of four other groups that learned of their techniques through their conference presentation. Are carelessness and sloppy research on the increase as a result, or are there just isolated phenomena. (Karel Svoboda, formerly of Howard Berg’s lab at Rowland/Harvard, is among those quoted)

A Guardian article lists ten hoaxes and forgeries, some better known and more recent such as Jan Henrik Schön’s fabricated results and element 118.
(Source: SciTechDaily, http://SciTechDaily.com)

I’ve moved the library weblog over to Harvard Law and am having a go with their Manila software. Read earlier postings at http://rihlib.blogspot.com, where I will continue to archive them …

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