Ron Vale has spent a career studying how molecular motors transport cargo within cells. He’s also developed tools to help scientists communicate their findings.
Rediscovery of a snail thought to be extinct has raised questions about the peer-review process that approved the publication of the extinction report.
Proponents of open-access publishing question the newly announced terms of publishing in the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s forthcoming journal.
As a new age in scholarly publishing dawns, improved standards for openness in communicating scientific information promise to eliminate biases and publication delays.
In Chapter 3, “Credibility: Validating Discovery Claims,” author Frederick Grinnell details the difficulty in making discoveries that buck current scientific paradigms.