Pressures to Publish Increase Scientists Bias

Last week PLoS One published an interesting study (H/T Climate Shifts) by behavioral ecologist Daniele Fanelli concerning the relationship between professional pressures to publish material and bias in the scientific literature: Do Pressures to Publish Increase Scientist Bias? Support From US States Data Daniele Fanelli. PLoS ONE. 21 April 2010. The objectivity and integrity of […]

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Notes From All Over 23/01/2010

A few older essays – long, but still containing insight: Man from the Margin: Cao Cao and the Three Kingdoms. Rafe de Crespigny. ANU Faculty of Asian Studies. Posted 7 June 2004. Dr. de Crespigny quite literally wrote the book(s) on the later Han dynasty and the “great disunion” that followed its collapse. In this […]

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