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Magnanimity pays off

December 26, 2015

Francis Crick exceeded the brilliance of his famous double helix model by this magnanimous act:

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Premature human engineering

December 3, 2015

The news buzz alive with excitement about human genome editing, even human germline engineering. Successful germline engineering requires (1) a technology …

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Deceptive Numbers

November 2, 2015

You want to estimate an important quantity. You compute an exact number purporting to estimate it. You compute another exact …

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Increasingly direct evidence

October 24, 2015

The results in our Cell report are particularly satisfying to me since they bring clarity to a puzzle that I …

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Science and failures of authority

July 22, 2015

One of the key milestones in the emergence of the scientific method was placing empirical evidence above authority. This shift …

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Which publications are citable?

June 17, 2015

The number of references to a scientific publication is frequently used as an objective measure for the significance of the …

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Ideas

May 31, 2015

I have heard many biomedical researchers express the opinion: “In biology, ideas are cheap. It is the doing that matters.” …

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Evolving scientific culture

April 26, 2015

Scientific research depends crucially on the scientific culture. Unhealthy culture cannot support healthy research.

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High quality journals with low quality peer-reviews

March 18, 2015

There is much outcry about the increasing competition in scientific research. Yet, I do not hear comparable outcry about the …

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The dark age of 20th century science

February 23, 2015

Dogma held reason back for half a century. It happened in the age of “modern science” and the atomic bomb. It happened because of sloppy reasoning and twisting arguments in favour of the preferred conclusion, the dogma of the time. What could be more antithetical to science ? What is the antidote ?

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