News: Fighting for the right to research Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 28th February 2006 11:31 PM GMT] Scientists from both sides of the pond are taking dramatic steps to save animal research. Days after researchers and animal rights groups staged parallel protests about the ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: More Korean research problems Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 16th February 2006 11:03 PM GMT] In the latest of a long line of developments, Columbia University appears to have withdrawn its name from a ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: This time, the Times may be a little off Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 14th February 2006 10:55 PM GMT] When I saw this month?s cover story earned a mention in Monday?s New York Times article called "Reporters find science journals harder to trust, but not easy to verify," my eyes lingered ... Click to continue Comment on this news story News: James Hansen speaks?and maybe says too much Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 13th February 2006 11:25 PM GMT] Little did I know what a treat I was getting at last week?s conference at the New School in New York called "Politics & Science: How their interplay results in public policy." On the second ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story News: Reviewing peer review Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 8th February 2006 09:19 PM GMT] Peer review is on every life scientist?s mind lately, it seems. One of the main complaints I heard while researching the February cover story is that the process is inherently difficult to ... Click to continue View comment (1) | Comment on this news story

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