Larry Moran has an post on editorial Royce Murray entitled analytical chemistry journal "Science Blogs and Caveat Emptor". Murray, a well-respected scientist, deplores the unpublished sincerity of science bloggers:
.. victimized new freelancers with megaphone of the internet, can reach a much wider audience of potential customers that she was in the past (and harness free "information sources"). (Cela_amplifie,_pour_le_lecteur_de_licenciement,_les_problèmes_de_doubles_pour_évaluer_la_crédibilité_:_UN) having a single stable employer (such as a newspaper, that can emphasize the credentials or education background) releases the requirement of reliability of coherent information blogger so blogs b) "agencies" are popping that openly announce "no formal qualifications are required" (such as a search on the internet for "the qualities of bloggers"revealed""). Who are the auditors of facts now? There was no reviewers in a formal sense and writes can be made for any purpose - political, religious, business, etc. - without the constraint of the truth.What is the truth and other consumer info-blog quality feedback loop that statistics on the number of people reading posts from Blogger? how is feedback received at untangle wild currents of disinformation promulgated by elements social Antiscience?
Murray lacks its own logic. Is it not precisely scientists released "the obligation of the reliability of coherent information" and that lie science for reasons of "policy, religious, [and] business" which are the "elements social Antiscience? Murray is wrong to worry about the "qualifications" science bloggers. Most science bloggers are specialized and many scientists, if not most occupy important positions in universities. There is nothing wrong to promote culture and politics of science to the public in a way that is relatively free of editorial control.But, Murray is right to stress the enormous impact that the blogsphere science is having and will have on the p.Eng should also deplore the huge impact science blogging will have on the perception of the scientific public. And the public gains will be much of a specific collection.
I think that this impact is very healthy for the public at least.Content is unedited and refreshing honnête.La science blogsphere is free editors and scientific journalists who were dressed in science for a public presentation of the generations. This is gross and censored. Consider science blogs as a wire-tap in the laboratory and seminar room.
Information about the culture in which occurs the science are essential for citizenship informée.En this era of "scientific consensus" and fervent efforts of many public policy mold, science blogging scientists establish the context in which understand the scientific conclusions and recommendations.Never before citizens who finance science had available to them these clear expression of the culture of science. A part of this culture is professional and sobre.quelques not.
Science blogs provide the context generally dry findings published in professional journals and context for polis in mainstream media press releases.Maybe science blogs have the most contentious environment in which science is done, but the ideological and political pressure has a profound scientific work impact, on peer review decisions on publication and their occupation and the selection of research topics and findings disclosed to public.Et to take decisions on funding for science and public policy related to science, the public needs to know the ideological basis and political science.
Ideological and political context always molded science, of course, but science blogs provide the public to pay taxes the opportunity to learn first hand about the culture in which their $ hard flow. In a national political environment requiring citizens public accountability to beneficiaries of Government largesse (i.e. taxpayers), science blogs are indispensable for the informed citizen.
Science blogs provide the public an infinitely rich context for publicly funded science.An example: the following are the questions that it was difficult for the average answer before the rise of science blogs American:
Biologists who say publicly that design plays no role in biology have an ideological agenda that dictates their so-called objective scientific findings?This taxpayer dollars measurement supports an ideological rather than a scientist, the agenda?What think you biologists from developments on the beliefs and values most Americans?If science in fields such as biology evolutionary and climate science may be approved to teach our children in schools and colleges without pushing an agenda religious or ideological?
These questions are easier to answer today.Worldwide most popular science blog is P.Z. Myers Pharyngula and gave birth to many Read Myers.Vous imitateurs.Blog learn more on evolutionary biology that previous generations of citizens had the opportunity to learn .Myers has a gift for explaining .you will learn much on evolutionary biology and heavily on the ideological agenda working in the domaine.Contrairement journals and manuals, Pharyngula isn't the least bit sec.Vous will learn much about evolutionary biologists how do your dime.Myers science and its correspondents have much to say about you and your beliefs as well.
Thank goodness the science.Ils blogs enhance the processes by which science is done in ways never available to the public, and they provide a framework in which include "scientific consensus."
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