As we’ve noted a few times before, the attempts by certain members of Congress and this administration to use transparency as a subterfuge to torpedo science they don’t like. Sometimes…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
GG was a bit disturbed in reading an Atlantic story describing how PLOS Biology and a few other journals were relaxing the rules on publishing papers that were scooped by rivals publishing the same…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Although there has been a lot of focus on actions in the executive branch, a rather curious piece of legislation is working its way through Congress. HR 1430, called the HONEST act, might just be …| The Grumpy Geophysicist
A lot has been written about the results of the Reproducibility Project’s analysis of papers in psychology (for instance, here and here). While some of the response has been overwrought handw…| The Grumpy Geophysicist
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