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‘Sexy’ science =| ‘good’ science, and all the fallacies that follow from misunderstanding this

Posted by Coturnix on June 21, 2010
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Apparently, someone published a really curmudgeonly and regressive-thinking article about science publishing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, titled We Must Stop the Avalanche of Low-Quality Research. Commenters there are shredding it apart. But you should also see blog posts discussing it, by Female Science Professor, DrugMonkey, Orac and Geekmommyprof. If anything, they do not fisk it thoroughly enough ;-)

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  1. #1 antipodean
    June 21, 2010

    Hey! Look at that fisk has gone lower case.

  2. #2 Coturnix
    June 22, 2010

    Mike the Mad Biologist also chimes in.

  3. #3 Coturnix
    June 22, 2010

    And the best anti-dote was written by Jennifer Rohn – a real-world example of the importance of publishing everything.