Since 1980, more than 40,000 scientific publications have been retracted due to errors, outdated knowledge or outright fraudulence. Yet these zombie publications continue to be cited and used, unwittingly, to support new arguments. Writing for The Hill, Jodi Schneider explains how to stop their spread. https://flip.it/9QiK4k #Science#Studies#ScientificResearch
Folks, please contact your representatives to keep goverment funded and running.
If there is a goverment shutdown, it messes up #research funding, and that includes current and future #cancer#trials and #studies. A shutdown severly effects cancer #patients in cruel and often irreversable ways.
@dannotdaniel@luckytran you make fun of that, but #Studies really show great effects of #HOCl against #SarsCov2 . Not only on surfaces but also in very very low concentrations as a gargle, inhale, nasal spray. Same with the disinfectant Povidon-Iodine
Also #UV-C and save #Far-UV-C and #blue light with 400-425nm light are shown to inactivate #Virus .
Also #NearInfrared light is shown to have good effects on our bodies fight against #covid . Also normal VitaminD lv
#Journalists can #assess#tree#equity in their coverage area and find out whether local officials are implementing plans to reduce #inequities in green space. To bolster journalists’ knowledge and reporting, we’ve gathered and summarized several recent studies that assess tree and #greenspace inequities in cities and neighborhoods and examine their association with #health . The #studies are organized by publication date.
I suspect part of the issue is that scientific journals don't take advertising - the model most other types of publications use to cover overhead (office expenses, various staff, etc.). For a full-page add, many publications charge maybe $20-$50k or more. Even at that sort of rate, many mainstream publications have very narrow profit margins -- you still have to sell a lot of ads to pay all the staff, electric bills, insurance, etc.. But the current journal model of having contributors pay and costly access fees to see articles isn't ideal either.
Part of the article says: ""Publishers are charging us to publish our work, then they turn around and ask you to do the peer review [for other researchers' articles] for free," said Van Raay. "There are really only five publishers that own [virtually] all the journals and they make billions of dollars. It has to change."
Academic publishing is a unique enterprise. Researchers contribute studies, typically for free or paying for the privilege to publish; those draft studies are then peer-reviewed by other unpaid specialists to ensure the material is unique and academically sound.
After reviewers suggest changes and agree on a suitable version, the final product is published in a for-profit academic journal, which is then sold back to university libraries.
The typical Canadian university library is now spending three-quarters of its budget for new material on journal subscriptions, said the head of a group representing the research institutions.
Prices to access studies from peer-reviewed journals paid by universities — which are heavily subsidized by taxpayers — have risen more than 400 per cent over the past two decades, according to a study citing Statistics Canada data published in 2021...
Known as the "big five publishers" — Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, Taylor & Francis and Sage — control more than half of the global market for scholarly journals"
The Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak.
More than half (87%) of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered -- unfindable and unplayable.
"Just 13% of video game history is being represented in the current marketplace. In fact, no period of video game history defined in this study even cracked 20% representation."
This is pretty messed up. The study just backs up what advocates of physical media have been saying for years.
Really think there needs to be much more #PhilosophyOfBlindness discussion out there in our community than there is. Take the #study I was just discussing on here. So many of us would hope that we have no (as commonly-called) “super-powers” as #blind people, because, many would argue, that would “other” us even further. (In fact, I’ve always been of this mindset.) Yet, we seem to have #studies that actually counter such a position. What are we, as a #BlindCommunity, to make of them? #blindness