Send us a link
Laura and John Arnold, a Houston couple, have become the Medicis for "research integrity". They finance the Center of Open Science (COS) and the METRICS Institute led by J.P. Ioannidis at Stanford.
What are the right lessons to draw from the rise in scientific retractions?
Oxford University has picked its next leader — and for the first time in 785 years, it will be led by a woman: Louise Richardson.
When people talk about the flaws in the scientific process, they often raise the problem of peer review. Right now, when a researcher submits an article for publication in a journal, it's sent off to his or her peers for constructive criticism or even rejection.
Corruption is a barrier to innovation. Greater scrutiny of public spending is needed if science and technology are to fulfil their potential.
The British commentator George Monbiot once compared academic publishers to the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, concluding that the former were more predatory.
