UPDATE: The BBC have started a debate on the issue on their Editors’ Blog Ben Goldacre is experiencing understandable frustration with the BBC’s policy on linking to science papers: Jane Ashley of the website’s health team, says that when they write an article based on scientific research: “It is our policy to link to the journal rather than the article
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Ben Goldacre writes about the suing of Simon Singh by The British Chiropractic Association (you’ll see a badge on this blog on the issue), and how bloggers have helped investigate their claims. “Fifteen months after the case began, the BCA finally released the academic evidence it was using to support specific claims. Within 24 hours this was taken apart meticulously by bloggers,
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Elsevier, the Dutch scientific publisher, has announced details of their grandly titled Article of the Future project. Their prototypes, published at http://beta.cell.com, are the result of what Emilie Marcus, Editor in Chief, Cell Press called, “…a challenge to redesign from scratch how to most effectively structure and present the content of a traditional scientific article in an online environment.” Prototypes
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