Desinformación sobre COVID, teorías conspirativas y manipulación
Por alberto Pascual-García En estos días de encierro y preocupación alrededor de la pandemia, estamos viendo con preocupación cómo incluso las fuentes oficiales fallan a la hora de dar información fidedigna. Un caso particularmente inquietante es el del origen del brote, en el cual Donald Trump está teniendo un papel protagonista al señalar un posible…
Conflicts of interest in the scientific publishing system underlie the deterioration of science
Public institutions should lead the way towards a new model A decaffeinated version of this article was published in EMBO Reports: Ignacio Amigo & Alberto Pascual‐García, EMBO Rep. 2017 Dec; 18(12): 2081–2083. Published online 2017 Nov 20. doi: 10.15252/embr.201745008 Abstract Despite great technological advances, scientific publishing has experienced little change in the last decades. While the…
Scientific publishing: It’s time for scientists
This post is a letter to The Economist, on behalf of the organization OpenScholar, in response to a special number on scientific publishing (March 25th, 2017). Your articles on scientific publishing entitled “The findings of medical research are disseminated too slowly” (March 25th) describes realistically a main problem we face in science, but a second…
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