Jean Lievens: OpenMinTeD Cross-Science Text and Data Mining

The next step in Open Science? Text and Data Mining! The new H2020 European project “OpenMinTeD” will be the first to build an infrastructure that makes it much easier to mine, by making existing text mining tools discoverable, interoperable and usable. The infrastructure brings together text and data registries/databases and will develop a standard layer, …

Berto Jongman: 6 Corporations Control Science

Nearly All Scientific Papers Controlled By Same Six Corporations Researchers looked at scientific literature published between 1973 – 2013 and found that companies ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, Wiley-Blackwell controlled nearly every single one.

Chuck Spinney: Judith Curry on Global Warming Debate and Politics Over Science

Below is an informative presentation (in pdf format) entitled the State of the U.S. Climate Debate.  It has been produced by Professor Judith Curry of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology and will shortly be presented to the House of Lords in the UK Parliament.  The pdf file includes her slides with her …

Antechinus: Science Sucks, Vaccines Scare, Parents Push Back

What if not all parents who question vaccines are foolish and anti-science? If you want to understand and reduce vaccination non-compliance you have to work to achieve a subtler understanding of parental decision-making, along with a recognition that ­public-health campaigns aren’t Pure Science but are influenced by politics and money (although maybe they shouldn’t be). …